{"id":127,"date":"2005-02-10T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/02\/florist_vs_bodega.html"},"modified":"2005-02-10T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T16:03:50","slug":"florist_vs_bode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/florist_vs_bode.html","title":{"rendered":"Florist vs. Bodega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News tackles the age-old question whether florists can match bodedgas in quality of flowers.  The answer may surprise you! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/279469p-239435c.html\">&#8220;The price of love: Florists&#8217; roses go nose-to-nose vs. bodega bargains&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Over the next few days, thousands of New York men will be faced with a thorny choice: florist or bodega.<\/p>\n<p>As they head home to their honey on Valentine&#8217;s Day, they could find a nice flower shop and pick up a dozen long-stemmed roses for about $50.<\/p>\n<p>But many of those men will be tempted to just drop by the corner grocery and buy a bouquet of the red blossoms for a third or less of that price.<\/p>\n<p>After all, a rose is a rose is a rose, right? And it&#8217;s not like the love of their life will be able to tell the difference. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Not so fast, Romeo.<\/p>\n<p>An informal survey by the Daily News found that with a glance and sniff, four out of six women can distinguish the cher from the cheap.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/midtown\/sidestreets\/east51st\/09flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Bodega Flowers . . . Or Not? (East 51st Street, Midtown)\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News tackles the age-old question whether florists can match bodedgas in quality of flowers. The answer may surprise you! &#8220;The price of love: Florists&#8217; roses go nose-to-nose vs. bodega bargains&#8221;: Over the next few days, thousands of New York men will be faced with a thorny choice: florist or bodega. As they head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","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=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}