{"id":399,"date":"2005-09-26T09:37:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_grand_experience_traveling_13_feet_in_the_air_through_the_city_of_new_york.html"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:02:33","slug":"the_grand_exper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/09\/the_grand_exper.html","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Experience Traveling 13 Feet In The Air Through The City Of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether the tours in the red double-decker buses were informative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/archives\/news\/2005\/09\/25\/2005-09-25_takin__tourists_or_a_ride__n.html\">rest assured that they are not<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;People are not looking for a history lesson,&#8221; said David Chien, Gray Line&#8217;s director of marketing. &#8220;They&#8217;re looking to be entertained and to have a grand experience traveling 13 feet in the air through the City of New York.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the many fibs the Daily News uncovered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rudy Giuliani is still mayor<\/li>\n<li>New York is called Gotham because of its abundance of gothic architecture<\/li>\n<li>Tenements on the Lower East Side still exist along with &#8220;beatniks&#8221; in Greenwich Village<\/li>\n<li>Flappers went wild for Frank Sinatra in the Paramount theater during the 1890s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered whether the tours in the red double-decker buses were informative rest assured that they are not: &#8220;People are not looking for a history lesson,&#8221; said David Chien, Gray Line&#8217;s director of marketing. &#8220;They&#8217;re looking to be entertained and to have a grand experience traveling 13 feet in the air through 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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citywide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}