{"id":4842,"date":"2012-03-18T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T16:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2013-01-24T22:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T03:41:19","slug":"the-knife-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/18\/the-knife-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The knife man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The knife man is one of those &#8216;only in New York&#8217; (or perhaps even &#8216;only on the upper west side&#8217;) things that my friends who grew up in the city talk about. This guy drives around the neighborhood, waiting for people to bring downstairs knives, scissors, or anything else with a blade that needs sharpening, and then he sharpens them in his ever-more-antiquated truck. A service that only works in a community stacked with close neighbors who don&#8217;t drive. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" width=\"930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120318-124158.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The knife man is one of those &#8216;only in New York&#8217; (or perhaps even &#8216;only on the upper west side&#8217;) things that my friends who grew up in the city talk about. This guy drives around the neighborhood, waiting for people to bring downstairs knives, scissors, or anything else with a blade that needs sharpening, [&hellip;]<\/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":[14,10],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-1g6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","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=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5706,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/5706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}