{"id":208,"date":"2009-08-16T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T11:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-08-16T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T11:38:55","slug":"the-el-herald-square-undated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/16\/the-el-herald-square-undated\/","title":{"rendered":"The El, Herald Square, undated."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The El\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Aug 09\/stereogram front 500px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"The El\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/Aug 09\/stereogram back 500px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Visitors find the elevated a convenient and pleasant way of getting around the city, as it affords some good views. The New Yorker always chooses the subway, the quickest way \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if he can get an express. If he must take a local for a few blocks, he changes to an express as soon as possible.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I found this today in a box of bits and pieces I haven&#8217;t looked at in years. It reminds me that I was once asked, in all sincerity, whether the NYC subway system was built <em>before<\/em> the city.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It also suggests that like the High Line perhaps, the El was designed for tourists \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that real New Yorkers travel as fast as they can, underground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors find the elevated a convenient and pleasant way of getting around the city, as it affords some good views. The New Yorker always chooses the subway, the quickest way \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if he can get an express. If he must take a local for a few blocks, he changes to an express as soon as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}