{"id":269,"date":"2005-06-21T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T14:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/06\/geology_lesson_to_metropolitan_diary_entry_in_less_than_six_seconds.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:33:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:33:40","slug":"the_biggest_pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/the_biggest_pot.html","title":{"rendered":"Geology Lesson To Metropolitan Diary Entry In Less Than Six Seconds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that of all the quotes to pull out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/06\/21\/nyregion\/21pothole.html?ex=1277006400&#038;en=2ee67877a2550ed1&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">this Times article about the mammoth pothole that formed over the weekend on 56th Street<\/a> I&#8217;m going to pull out such a cloying, obviously Metropolitan Diary-worthy one such as this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I told my son that that&#8217;s exactly how the Grand Canyon was formed,&#8221; said John Trials, who took a break from his job at Xerox at 40 West 57th Street to examine the hole around noon yesterday. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing what a little water can do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But I did!<\/p>\n<p>Where else does a pothole become a geology lesson? Only in New York, Kids! Only in New York! [That loud crash being the sound of Cindy Adams bitchslapping me. Ouch!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe that of all the quotes to pull out of this Times article about the mammoth pothole that formed over the weekend on 56th Street I&#8217;m going to pull out such a cloying, obviously Metropolitan Diary-worthy one such as this: &#8220;I told my son that that&#8217;s exactly how the Grand Canyon was formed,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}