{"id":955488,"date":"2026-11-02T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955488\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T12:30:09","slug":"hanes-montreal-mayor-squeezes-lemonade-out-of-tough-first-year-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955488\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanes: Montreal mayor squeezes lemonade out of tough first year in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there\u2019s a moment that best symbolizes <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-politics\/montreal-mayor-martinez-ferrada-one-year-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada\u2019s first year in office<\/a>, it\u2019s the night last winter she <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-mayor-martinez-ferrada-flat-tires-potholes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">blew two tires on Montreal\u2019s cratered roads<\/a> on her way home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montrealers were already giving her grief that the city\u2019s notorious potholes were downright disastrous. Blue-collar workers\u2019 patching efforts were hampered by broken machinery. Meanwhile, the city was being <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-mayor-potholes-new-measures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">put to shame by quixotic vigilantes<\/a> going around filling the craters for free and winning praise on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Martinez Ferrada could have just called the tow truck and gone home. But she turned the moment into political lemonade instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there\u2019s a moment that best symbolizes Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada\u2019s first year in office, it\u2019s the night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-955488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}