{"id":1056,"date":"2006-05-08T10:11:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/ironic_because_everyone_knows_the_g_never_comes.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:24:32","slug":"ironic_because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/ironic_because.html","title":{"rendered":"Ironic, Because Everyone Knows The G Never Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing worse than getting killed by a subway train while taking a leak is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/65632.htm\">getting killed by a G train while doing that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A man was struck dead by a train as he was using a Greenpoint subway tunnel as a toilet yesterday, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man was in the tube for the G line near the Greenpoint Avenue station relieving himself around 5:30 p.m. when an incoming Queens-bound train struck him.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told cops they had seen an intoxicated man climb down into the tunnel shortly before the incident.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing worse than getting killed by a subway train while taking a leak is getting killed by a G train while doing that: A man was struck dead by a train as he was using a Greenpoint subway tunnel as a toilet yesterday, police sources said. The unidentified man was in the tube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}