{"id":3820,"date":"2008-09-24T08:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2008-09-24T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:27:45","slug":"80s_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/80s_redux.html","title":{"rendered":"80s Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand you have a worldwide financial meltdown followed by perhaps the greatest structural changes to the economy since the 1930s. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/style\/crash-virgins\">On the other hand you have a dirtier Bowery<\/a>. And that&#8217;s something all of us understand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Lizzy Goodman was one of the fortunate ones of the class of 2002; upon graduating from Penn, she had a job lined up as an assistant teacher at Buckley, the all-boys school on the Upper East Side. Six years later, she&#8217;s an editor at large at Blender. Like some of her peers, she seems hopeful that, instead of being a harbinger of utter doom, this crash will instead level the playing field just a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone is hoping for American financial collapse just so that the Bowery can be seedy again,&#8221; said Ms. Goodman, who lives in the West Village. &#8220;But on the other hand, if in the wake of this collective shuttering and fearing comes a return to old school &#8217;80s boho New York, I would <\/em>certainly<em> be in favor of that.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fortunately for her, there are literally hundreds of us who consider our subscription to <em>Blender<\/em> to be utterly indispensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand you have a worldwide financial meltdown followed by perhaps the greatest structural changes to the economy since the 1930s. On the other hand you have a dirtier Bowery. And that&#8217;s something all of us understand: Lizzy Goodman was one of the fortunate ones of the class of 2002; upon graduating from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,64,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bah_humbug","category-please_make_it_stop","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}