{"id":4887,"date":"2009-05-28T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4887"},"modified":"2009-05-28T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:45:28","slug":"september_10th_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/september_10th_2009.html","title":{"rendered":"September 10th: 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the next big terrorist attack happens we will be as unprepared as we were on 9\/10\/01, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/26\/nyregion\/26neighbors.html\">lulled into a dangerous complaisance by the Old West Main Street facade that New York has become<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Awakened residents thought it was a gas explosion, maybe a sonic boom. Others figured an espresso machine inside the Starbucks had blown up. One woman, walking by the dozens of official-looking law enforcement folks inside the crime-scene tape, explained to her young daughter how similar shows like &#8220;C.S.I.&#8221; are filmed before realizing the asphalt was no stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the real deal?&#8221; she said with a gasp. &#8220;I&#8217;m explaining it like it was a movie.&#8221; She grabbed her daughter&#8217;s hand and hurried away.<\/p>\n<p>The growing realization that the commotion at 92nd Street and Third Avenue on Monday morning derived from a small explosive device rather than a script left nearby residents stunned, curious and ultimately frightened.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Some noted how much it looked like television, while others experienced an odd collision between fiction and fact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sounded like a bomb, to the extent that I know what a bomb sounds like,&#8221; said Casey Mallinckrodt, who was awakened with her family in their apartment one block north on 93rd Street. &#8220;It&#8217;s confusing. Obviously we don&#8217;t live in a bomb-riddled city most of the time. And bombing a Starbucks doesn&#8217;t seem like a terrifically pointed act of terrorism towards a community. It seems as though it might be a statement towards Starbucks.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the next big terrorist attack happens we will be as unprepared as we were on 9\/10\/01, lulled into a dangerous complaisance by the Old West Main Street facade that New York has become: Awakened residents thought it was a gas explosion, maybe a sonic boom. Others figured an espresso machine inside the Starbucks had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_care_if_youre_filming_youre_in_my_goddamn_way","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","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=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4888,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}