{"id":2485,"date":"2007-07-05T08:47:46","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_devil_bowed_his_head_because_he_knew_that_hed_been_beat_and_he_laid_that_golden_fiddle_on_the_ground_at_tommys_feet.html"},"modified":"2007-07-05T08:47:46","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T16:47:46","slug":"the_devil_bowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_devil_bowed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Bowed His Head Because He Knew That He&#8217;d Been Beat And He Laid That Golden Fiddle On The Ground At Tommy&#8217;s Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The person obviously gave up when he or she found that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07052007\/news\/regionalnews\/violin_mans_pluck_luck_regionalnews_philip_messing_________patrick_gallahue_______and_jeremy_olshan.htm\">no one was particularly excited about a hot fiddle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The drowsy violinist whose $80,000 instrument was either lost or stolen after he dozed off on the bench of a Brooklyn subway station was playing a happy tune yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a miracle,&#8221; said Tom Chiu, after getting reunited with his beloved 94-year-old Scarampella violin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a call from MTA Lost-and-Found last night and they told me to come to Stillwell Avenue to retrieve it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still disbelieving, Chiu asked the transit worker on the phone if there were bow ties and pictures of his wife in the case.<\/p>\n<p>There were.<\/p>\n<p>Chiu, 36, a renowned concert violinist who performs at the floating Bargemusic in Brooklyn, said he would never let his instrument out of his sight again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned a big lesson,&#8221; he told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You think Clark Street in Brooklyn Heights &#8212; nothing bad would happen there. I love people, but I need to guard my possessions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chiu said there is still the possibility the violin was stolen from him, and the thief abandoned it in favor of the other valuables in his case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The zipper is broken on the case and some of my other things are missing,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The person obviously gave up when he or she found that no one was particularly excited about a hot fiddle: The drowsy violinist whose $80,000 instrument was either lost or stolen after he dozed off on the bench of a Brooklyn subway station was playing a happy tune yesterday. &#8220;It&#8217;s a miracle,&#8221; said Tom Chiu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}