{"id":116,"date":"2005-02-03T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/jeff_koons_birthday_party.html"},"modified":"2005-02-03T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:22:30","slug":"jeff_koons_birt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/jeff_koons_birt.html","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Koons&#8217; Birthday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We might have new shorthand for &#8220;kooky excess,&#8221; now defined as Jeff Koons&#8217; 50th Birthday, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/content\/?050207ta_talk_tomkins\">reported by Talk of the Town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>And then the garage doors opened, and in trooped the marching band of Burlington City High School, in Burlington, New Jersey, wearing navy-blue uniforms and feathered shakos and producing on their instruments a deafening version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Happy Birthday.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They were followed, a few minutes later, by a pair of white ponies pulling a cart with a three-tiered white cake, out of which popped a girl in a skimpy red bathing suit. [Deitch Projects gallery owner Jeffrey] Deitch had tried to get Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friend Pamela Anderson for the cake duty, but she had to be at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We might have new shorthand for &#8220;kooky excess,&#8221; now defined as Jeff Koons&#8217; 50th Birthday, as reported by Talk of the Town: And then the garage doors opened, and in trooped the marching band of Burlington City High School, in Burlington, New Jersey, wearing navy-blue uniforms and feathered shakos and producing on their instruments a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts_entertainment","category-bridge_and_tunnel_club_shorthand","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}