{"id":2797,"date":"2007-09-25T02:58:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T10:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/ramp_down_the_jawn.html"},"modified":"2007-09-25T02:58:34","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T10:58:34","slug":"ramp_down_the_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/ramp_down_the_j.html","title":{"rendered":"Ramp Down The Jawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again, lay off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/you_cant_just_m.html\">&#8220;sixth borough&#8221; talk<\/a> &#8212; spare hard-working Philadelphians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/23\/fashion\/23boite.html?ex=1348113600&#038;en=ee1d55a8fd90fb8d&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">your evil scheme to turn their city into the next Ridgewood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The vibe here,&#8221; said Shawn Hennessey, &#8220;is the jawn.&#8221; The 27-year-old musician gestured at the neon sign for Silk City, a club-cum-restaurant housed in an old dining car in the gentrifying Northern Liberties neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The jawn is a Philly word,&#8221; said Brian Nadav, Mr. Hennessey&#8217;s friend and bandmate. &#8220;It means &#8216;a good thing.&#8217; It can be a noun, like you can say, &#8216;Yo, pass me that jawn&#8217; or &#8216;I&#8217;m the jawn.'&#8221; But, he cautioned, &#8220;It is never a verb. You never say, &#8216;I jawned.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, lay off the &#8220;sixth borough&#8221; talk &#8212; spare hard-working Philadelphians your evil scheme to turn their city into the next Ridgewood: &#8220;The vibe here,&#8221; said Shawn Hennessey, &#8220;is the jawn.&#8221; The 27-year-old musician gestured at the neon sign for Silk City, a club-cum-restaurant housed in an old dining car in the gentrifying Northern Liberties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}