{"id":951,"date":"2005-08-24T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T10:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/maybe-i-should-have-sent-him-over-the-bridge\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T11:17:27","slug":"maybe-i-should-have-sent-him-over-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/maybe-i-should-have-sent-him-over-the-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe I should have sent him over the bridge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curbed.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/23\/confusion_on_the_streets_of_little_chinatown.php\">this little entry in curbed<\/a> actually reminded me of a totally silly conversation I had last week while walking home from work.<\/p>\n<p>As I turned onto Central Park South from 7th Avenue, this happened:<\/p>\n<p>Random Touristy Guy:  Excuse me, how do I get to 59th Street?<br \/>\nMe:  Um, Central Park South IS 59th Street&#8230;it&#8217;s only called &quot;Central Park South&quot; for the duration of, um, Central Park<br \/>\nRTG:  OK, but what direction is 59th Street?<br \/>\nMe:  You&#8217;re on Central Park South, which IS 59th Street. It&#8217;s 59th street in BOTH directions!<br \/>\nRTG:  BUT WHAT DIRECTION IS 59th STREET???<br \/>\nMe:  THIS IS 59TH STREET!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if he was looking for a particular address, he never mentioned it (and frankly, he never even said whether he was looking for &quot;east&quot; or &quot;west&quot; 59th, which would have enabled me to at least point in one direction or the other based on our location).  I just watched him wander away (east, by the way), and shook my head in exhaustion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this little entry in curbed actually reminded me of a totally silly conversation I had last week while walking home from work. As I turned onto Central Park South from 7th Avenue, this happened: Random Touristy Guy: Excuse me, how do I get to 59th Street? Me: Um, Central Park South IS 59th Street&#8230;it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[32,14],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crazy-people","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-fl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}