{"id":36653,"date":"2025-03-21T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/pirate-booted-out-popcorn-moguls-coup-in-new-york-village-falls-flat\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:47:50","slug":"pirate-booted-out-popcorn-moguls-coup-in-new-york-village-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/pirate-booted-out-popcorn-moguls-coup-in-new-york-village-falls-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul\u2019s coup in New York village falls flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pirate\u2019s Booty Snacks founder Robert Ehrlich claimed to be tiny Long Island community\u2019s mayor \u2013 voters disagreed<\/p>\n<p>The popcorn mogul who founded Pirate\u2019s Booty Snacks tried to commandeer a New York village\u2019s local government, storming this minuscule municipality\u2019s office armed with a false statement claiming that he was mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Ehrlich strode into the town hall of Sea Cliff, a village of fewer than 5,000 residents within the larger town of Oyster Bay on Long Island, with all the finesse of a literal pirate on 10 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/21\/robert-ehrlich-mayor-sea-cliff-long-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirate\u2019s Booty Snacks founder Robert Ehrlich claimed to be tiny Long Island community\u2019s mayor \u2013 voters disagreed The popcorn mogul who founded Pirate\u2019s Booty Snacks tried to commandeer a New York village\u2019s local government, storming this minuscule municipality\u2019s office armed with a false statement claiming that he was mayor. Robert Ehrlich strode into the town &#8230; <a title=\"Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul\u2019s coup in New York village falls flat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/pirate-booted-out-popcorn-moguls-coup-in-new-york-village-falls-flat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pirate booted out: popcorn mogul\u2019s coup in New York village falls flat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}