{"id":3129,"date":"2008-02-06T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/hmm_i_dont_really_use_that_phonebook_much_anymore.html"},"modified":"2008-02-06T10:05:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:05:45","slug":"hmm_i_dont_really_use_that_phonebook_much_anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/hmm_i_dont_really_use_that_phonebook_much_anymore.html","title":{"rendered":"Hmm . . . I Don&#8217;t Really Use That Phonebook Much Anymore . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ticker tape parade is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/06\/sports\/football\/06parade.html?ex=1360040400&#038;en=48deb5429d474ebc&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">an excuse to clean out your desk<\/a>, you slob:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The crowd was good-natured and was filled with teenagers, many of whom were in diapers when the Giants last won the Super Bowl, in 1991, although the police did report a dozen or so arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct. The fans were in such a good mood that they even chanted, &#8220;Clean those streets,&#8221; as sanitation trucks drove up Broadway (with their snowplows down to collect garbage).<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>At 11 a.m., as the parade was set to begin, James H. Cooper, the rector of Trinity Church, emerged in a white robe and yellow cape. He climbed a ladder, hoisted a Giants sign and waved incense to bless the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The bells of the church rang out. Confetti poured from the highest floors, shredded paper that looked like flaming white meteors. Random sheets of paper in different sizes and colors &#8212; white, pink, green, lined and unlined, legal, notebook, post-it notes &#8212; were mixed in.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ticker tape parade is not an excuse to clean out your desk, you slob: The crowd was good-natured and was filled with teenagers, many of whom were in diapers when the Giants last won the Super Bowl, in 1991, although the police did report a dozen or so arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah_humbug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","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=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}