{"id":5242,"date":"2009-08-13T13:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2009-08-13T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T18:34:50","slug":"the_golden_days_of_coney_island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/the_golden_days_of_coney_island.html","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Days Of Coney Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And to think they want to turn Coney Island into a giant mall when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/13\/brooklyn\/brooklyntsirnha08122009.txt\">there is already such awesome excitement to be discovered there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A capybara, the world&#8217;s largest rodent, is the victim of a daily assault of noise, cramped conditions and inhumane treatment &#8212; and spectators can witness it all for less than the price of a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>On a hot Saturday night in Coney Island last week, one young spectator was hardly impressed. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a rat. That just looks like a guinea pig,&#8221; the girl said, disappearing into a thick crowd.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And to think they want to turn Coney Island into a giant mall when there is already such awesome excitement to be discovered there: A capybara, the world&#8217;s largest rodent, is the victim of a daily assault of noise, cramped conditions and inhumane treatment &#8212; and spectators can witness it all for less than 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":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","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\/5242","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=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}