{"id":2826,"date":"2007-10-02T01:04:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T09:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/10\/jose_reyes_amazin_work_ethic_is_rubbing_off_on_disappointed_citi_field_ironworkers.html"},"modified":"2007-10-02T01:04:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T09:04:45","slug":"jose_reyes_amaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/jose_reyes_amaz.html","title":{"rendered":"Jose Reyes’ Amazin’ Work Ethic Is Rubbing Off On Disappointed Citi Field Ironworkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a collapse so complete<\/a>, so devastating<\/a>, it’s understandable that you might start to question everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It wasn’t easy being a Mets fan yesterday, but it could not have been much harder on the fans than on those in hard hats building their laughingstock of a team a brand-spanking-new stadium in Flushing, Queens. In a city where the work can be hard and thankless, the combination of both was tough to beat here, backbreaking and heartbreaking all at once.<\/p>\n

To hear Denis O’Neil, 36, an electrician, describe the mood at the construction site, one would think there had been a fatal on-the-job accident. “It’s just a somber day, you know?” he said. “There’s not really anything I could have done.”<\/p>\n

But his feeling of helplessness quickly turned to anger. “What do you need a new stadium for?” he said, ignoring the fact that he was calling into question his own livelihood. “You can’t even win at the old stadium. What do you need a new one for?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Location Scout: Citi Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a collapse so complete, so devastating, it’s understandable that you might start to question everything: It wasn’t easy being a Mets fan yesterday, but it could not have been much harder on the fans than on those in hard hats building their laughingstock of a team a brand-spanking-new stadium in Flushing, Queens. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","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=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}