{"id":1309,"date":"2006-07-19T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/postenfreude.html"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T17:55:23","slug":"postenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/postenfreude.html","title":{"rendered":"Postenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/436232p-367552c.html\">engaging in Postenfreude* again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Post vendor was caught yesterday tossing bundles of free promotional copies of the sad tab into Brooklyn trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It might have been me, it might not have been me,&#8221; said vendor John Adams, 26, after a reporter watched him trash more than a hundred copies in three Fulton Mall trash cans.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown Heights man said he was having difficulties giving away the rag.<\/p>\n<p>He said he couldn&#8217;t leave his Jay St. spot until he&#8217;d given away all of the promotional copies, which featured an advertisement on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard,&#8221; said Adams, who has been hawking the Post for three weeks. &#8220;People don&#8217;t want anything even for free.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In March, at least 10,000 Posts were dumped into two Brooklyn recycling centers in a move that drew the attention ofnewspaper circulation authorities.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Loosely defined as taking pleasure when the Post embarrasses itself. The inter-tabloid equivalent: &#8220;Newsenfreude&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/daily_news_vs_t.html\">Daily News vs. The Post<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/tabloid_wars.html\">Tabloid Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily News is engaging in Postenfreude* again: A Post vendor was caught yesterday tossing bundles of free promotional copies of the sad tab into Brooklyn trash cans. &#8220;It might have been me, it might not have been me,&#8221; said vendor John Adams, 26, after a reporter watched him trash more than a hundred copies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_daily_news","category-new_york_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}