{"id":9977,"date":"2016-07-16T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2016-09-04T20:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:25:26","slug":"nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/16\/nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I worked in this building for six years, until, well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/sothat-happened\/\">all of that stuff happened<\/a>, and any time I would have to explain where I worked to someone, I would distinguish it from all of the other monolithic grey towers on sixth avenue by describing it as \u201cthe one with all the giant headless green statues in front\u201d.  Everyone always immediately knew what I was talking about after that.  <\/p>\n<p>In actuality, the statues are a piece of art titled \u201cLooking Towards the Avenue\u201d by artist Jim Dine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/01\/14\/realestate\/postings-3-jim-dine-sculptures-venus-on-the-avenue.html\">NY Times article from after their installation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waymarking.com\/waymarks\/WMGABX_Looking_Towards_The_Avenue_New_York_NY\">waymarking post with additional information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=930 border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P6150038-698x930.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked in this building for six years, until, well, all of that stuff happened, and any time I would have to explain where I worked to someone, I would distinguish it from all of the other monolithic grey towers on sixth avenue by describing it as \u201cthe one with all the giant headless green [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,14,10],"class_list":["post-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-2AV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10406,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions\/10406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}