{"id":3656,"date":"2008-07-31T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2008-07-31T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:48:23","slug":"admit_it_jazz_sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/admit_it_jazz_sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Admit It: Jazz Sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/21\/31\/news&#038;columns\/feature.cfm\">&#8220;goodbye, pork pie hat&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No one outside the pub that night would loan me a cell phone to dial 911. Crying, I went inside and borrowed a phone from Melvin. Two uniformed cops responded to the call, a man and a woman, young and as unsympathetic as the patrons at the bar &#8212; who hugged me in greeting most nights &#8212; and now wouldn&#8217;t look me in the eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody knows you,&#8221; the cops said. &#8220;Nobody saw anything,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always like that in there. Someone gets stabbed in the backyard and nobody saw nothing, nobody knows nothing. It&#8217;s a matter of time until someone is killed here, and we can shut the place down. What&#8217;s a woman like you doing in a dive like this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love the jazz,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>They looked at me like I was crazy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then it&#8217;s &#8220;goodbye, pork pie hat&#8221;: No one outside the pub that night would loan me a cell phone to dial 911. Crying, I went inside and borrowed a phone from Melvin. Two uniformed cops responded to the call, a man and a woman, young and as unsympathetic as the patrons at the bar &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3657,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/3657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}