{"id":4189,"date":"2008-12-24T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T14:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2008-12-24T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T14:51:07","slug":"my_mouse_soldiers_--_they_move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/my_mouse_soldiers_--_they_move.html","title":{"rendered":"My Mouse Soldiers &#8212; They Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing you want to avoid saying is &#8220;we want the attention,&#8221; and that could be either because you aren&#8217;t worthy of the attention and it looks lame to say you &#8220;want&#8221; it or because what you have is really actually pretty great and then once you finally get the attention you probably won&#8217;t want hundreds of gawkers clogging your street each December. But that said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2008\/12\/23\/2008-12-23_bensonhurst_no_lightweight.html\">we should definitely check this out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dyker Heights, where elaborate Christmas decorations have become as much a holiday tradition as a trip to Mona Lisa bakery, has a new rival in the borough.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of playing second fiddle, a growing group of Bensonhurst residents are making a run on tinsel in a bid to be crowned the new kings of Christmas. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got the nutcrackers, we got the soldiers on the pedestal, the carousel, the Wonder Wheel and the musical Christmas tree,&#8221; said 82nd St. resident Debra Schempp, all in one breath. &#8220;I got my elves with the reindeers, my mouse soldiers &#8212; they move &#8212; and I got my nutcrackers and I got those new lights that came out this year that go with music, and the ceramic pieces with the Santa on the sled. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, we got everything they got in Dyker Heights but none of the attention,&#8221; added Schempp, who said several other neighbors on her block have been decorating for more than a decade. &#8220;We want the attention.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/dykerheights\/christmaslights\/index.htm\">Dyker Heights Christmas Lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Thx, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/24\/resistance-to-kennedys-senate-bid-emerges\/\">8.<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing you want to avoid saying is &#8220;we want the attention,&#8221; and that could be either because you aren&#8217;t worthy of the attention and it looks lame to say you &#8220;want&#8221; it or because what you have is really actually pretty great and then once you finally get the attention you probably won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}