{"id":2340,"date":"2007-05-21T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/if_you_lie_down_on_your_private_parts_with_dogs_youll_come_up_with_very_odd_cindy_adams_stories.html"},"modified":"2007-05-21T10:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T18:06:00","slug":"if_you_lie_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/if_you_lie_down.html","title":{"rendered":"If You Lie Down On Your Private Parts With Dogs, You&#8217;ll Come Up With . . . Very Odd Cindy Adams Stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When profiles of Cindy Adams are really chugging along on all four cylinders they tend to take on a surreal quality, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2007\/05\/28\/070528ta_talk_mead\">something you might dream while nodding off on the subway<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Hello! I&#8217;m your hostess!&#8221; Cindy Adams was saying as she stood in the entryway of her Park Avenue apartment, welcoming a small group of women to a ladies&#8217; tea for Marianne Williamson, the New Age author, and Ellen Burstyn, the actress and memoirist. Adams did not know all her guests, since the party had been conceived in Burstyn&#8217;s public-relations office rather than in the generous heart of New York&#8217;s saltiest gossip columnist, but she struck a note of instant intimacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can I tell you, these crappy dogs just cost me nine hundred dollars to do their teeth, and that&#8217;s with the fifteen-per-cent discount the vet gave me?&#8221; Adams asked, as her two Yorkies, Jazzy and Juicy, swirled around her feet in a brown-and-black blur, before disappearing behind a concealed door into the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Adams&#8217;s attachment to her own small animals was clear: mid-party, she lay down on the marble tiles of her hallway and fed a pastry to Juicy from her mouth, a transfer requiring much licking and wagging from the canine party. Shortly afterward, Adams retreated to her tabloid-papered inner sanctum and, when asked if she considered herself a spiritual person, struck a note of uncharacteristic gravity. &#8220;I am somebody who is a seeker,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There are two parts to every person. There&#8217;s the brittle part that everybody sees. And then there&#8217;s the part that would rather lie on the floor with the dog. The private part.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When profiles of Cindy Adams are really chugging along on all four cylinders they tend to take on a surreal quality, something you might dream while nodding off on the subway: &#8220;Hello! I&#8217;m your hostess!&#8221; Cindy Adams was saying as she stood in the entryway of her Park Avenue apartment, welcoming a small group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","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=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}