{"id":3600,"date":"2008-07-14T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2008-07-14T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:06:23","slug":"i_play_my_part_and_you_play_your_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/i_play_my_part_and_you_play_your_game.html","title":{"rendered":"I Play My Part And You Play Your Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a Times article if it weren&#8217;t dripping with condescension, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/13\/nyregion\/13bonjovi.html?ex=1373688000&#038;en=ef9ad51755f437e8&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">slippery when wet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tens of thousands of people flocked to Central Park on Saturday to cheer on not only their favorite, oft-ridiculed rock band, but their favorite, oft-ridiculed state: New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>They crossed the Hudson River from Jersey City, Franklin Township and other parts of New Jersey to attend a free concert by Bon Jovi, the rock group from the Garden State that once released an album titled, simply, &#8220;New Jersey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would say 98 percent of the state loves Bon Jovi,&#8221; said Cheryl Vergara, 33, an administrative assistant from Clifton, N.J., one of thousands of people in a line that stretched for about 15 blocks on Fifth Avenue alongside the park on Saturday afternoon as they waited for the entrance at East 72nd Street to open.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, about two hours before the concert began, Mr. Bon Jovi, wearing sunglasses, and three of his bandmates sat on a bench outside their dressing room trailer and answered questions from reporters about scalpers (&#8220;We did what we could for our fans,&#8221; he said), their set list (&#8220;Nothing but hits, baby&#8221;) and the experience of playing Central Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels fantastic,&#8221; Mr. Bon Jovi said. &#8220;It&#8217;s pretty rarefied air to play the Great Lawn.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be a Times article if it weren&#8217;t dripping with condescension, so slippery when wet: Tens of thousands of people flocked to Central Park on Saturday to cheer on not only their favorite, oft-ridiculed rock band, but their favorite, oft-ridiculed state: New Jersey. They crossed the Hudson River from Jersey City, Franklin Township and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts_entertainment","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","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=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}