{"id":2034,"date":"2007-01-22T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/proposed_brooklyn_bridge_park_to_include_worlds_stupidest_game.html"},"modified":"2007-01-22T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T18:10:12","slug":"proposed_brookl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/proposed_brookl.html","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park To Include World&#8217;s Stupidest Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Gersh Kuntzman probably doesn&#8217;t realize that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/3\/30_03tetherball.html\">it&#8217;s probably just an artist&#8217;s rendering and not a real plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You think I&#8217;m joking? You think my affection for tetherball is just a writerly conceit, something to fill a column during the loathsome winter months between the Jets&#8217; playoff loss and the Mets&#8217; home opener?<\/p>\n<p>No, the Brooklyn Angle is truly tetherball&#8217;s last great champion. When I saw the latest renderings of the park, my spirit soared like it did whenever I slammed a ball past Kenny &#8220;Gimpy&#8221; Kramer in fourth grade.<\/p>\n<p>I had to find the person responsible for restoring tetherball to its rightful place in the pantheon of sport. Given the greatness of this game, I figured people would be falling all over each other (which is a foot-fault in tetherball, as you know) to take credit for getting landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh to add tetherball to the park&#8217;s offerings.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Gersh Kuntzman probably doesn&#8217;t realize that it&#8217;s probably just an artist&#8217;s rendering and not a real plan: You think I&#8217;m joking? You think my affection for tetherball is just a writerly conceit, something to fill a column during the loathsome winter months between the Jets&#8217; playoff loss and the Mets&#8217; home opener? No, the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}