{"id":3190,"date":"2008-03-04T09:33:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/entrepreneurial_spirit.html"},"modified":"2008-03-04T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T14:33:16","slug":"entrepreneurial_spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/entrepreneurial_spirit.html","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurial Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another sign of the cooling economy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2008\/03\/04\/2008-03-04_brooklynbased_paranormalists_will_clear_.html\">small businesses are struggling to get off the ground<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A team of self-made paranormalists is offering to come over to your house in the middle of the night to chase away any unwanted spirits. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated with the supernatural,&#8221; says Sal Cicconi, 27. <\/p>\n<p>Cicconi, along with Sergio Ocasio, 20, and Samantha Ramirez, 18, have plastered Brooklyn offering their services for just $20 an hour. <\/p>\n<p>Their business plan is a bit unorthodox, but then again, so are they. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was a kid, I had this ability, this gift,&#8221; Cicconi said in an interview in the trio&#8217;s East New York apartment. &#8220;When I was 10 years old, I started to see things &#8212; spirits and ghosts.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The three, who call themselves Brooklyn Ghost Investigations, are otherwise unemployed. <\/p>\n<p>Their only client is a Red Hook man who said he had two ghosts in his apartment.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another sign of the cooling economy, small businesses are struggling to get off the ground: A team of self-made paranormalists is offering to come over to your house in the middle of the night to chase away any unwanted spirits. &#8220;I&#8217;m fascinated with the supernatural,&#8221; says Sal Cicconi, 27. Cicconi, along with Sergio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","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=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}