{"id":1319,"date":"2006-07-20T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T20:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/if_i_cant_pay_50_then_no_one_should_be_able_to_pay_50.html"},"modified":"2006-07-20T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T20:02:35","slug":"if_i_cant_pay_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/if_i_cant_pay_5.html","title":{"rendered":"If I Can&#8217;t Pay $50 Then No One Should Be Able To Pay $50!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Neue Galerie has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/19\/arts\/design\/19neue.html?ex=1310961600&#038;en=5477b9ffb2e34309&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">scrapped plans for a special no-riff raff $50 off-hours deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Less than a week after announcing a special $50 opportunity to view its newly purchased Klimt portrait on a day its doors are normally shut, the Neue Galerie canceled that plan yesterday, saying the offer was misread by the public.<\/p>\n<p>A museum spokesman, Scott Gutterman, said that a wave of callers had contacted the Neue Galerie yesterday leaving the museum with the impression that some found the price objectionable. The Neue Galerie had described the $50 ticket, which was to be offered each Wednesday from noon to 4 p.m. starting today, as a way for visitors to avoid crowds. &#8220;It was originally intended for members, who can get in for free,&#8221; Mr. Gutterman said of the Wednesday viewings. &#8220;But then we thought that we would offer the public a chance to come on Wednesdays for $50, when it would be less crowded.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/congestion_pric.html\">Congestion Pricing Is Un-American!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Neue Galerie has scrapped plans for a special no-riff raff $50 off-hours deal: Less than a week after announcing a special $50 opportunity to view its newly purchased Klimt portrait on a day its doors are normally shut, the Neue Galerie canceled that plan yesterday, saying the offer was misread by the public. 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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts_entertainment","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}