{"id":1286,"date":"2007-11-04T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/marathon-alert\/"},"modified":"2009-10-03T06:12:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T11:12:52","slug":"marathon-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/marathon-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"marathon alert…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the NYC marathon is today, and this is the first time, since I moved into my Upper West Side apartment, that I’ll actually be in town for it (last year I was living in Milan and the year before I was holed up at the offices of a financial printer in London.  Before that, I lived downtown, far away, in city terms, from the marathon route).<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how much I’ll actually get to see, because you have to reserve seats on the bleachers to get a really good view, and I’ve got to meet my trainer from 11 to 12, but I’m going to drag my camera with me, and hopefully catch some finishers when I get out of the gym, which is conveniently located on 67th and Columbus, only one block away from the marathon end-point at Tavern on the Green.  They’ve also blocked off my street, even though I’m a few blocks north.  My doorman said that most people have to "exit" via my street, because it’s the first major cross street north of the finish.  So I should be able to get some good people shots at the very least.&nbsp<\/p>\n

They’re actually expecting the first finishers (competitive men) to finish right after noon, so the timing (crowds permitting) is pretty perfect.  I imagine I’ll be able to see people hobbling around for most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the NYC marathon is today, and this is the first time, since I moved into my Upper West Side apartment, that I’ll actually be in town for it (last year I was living in Milan and the year before I was holed up at the offices of a financial printer in London.  Before that, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14,10],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-kK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}