{"id":5995,"date":"2010-05-06T06:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2010-05-06T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T11:34:37","slug":"see_something_say_something_sell_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/see_something_say_something_sell_something.html","title":{"rendered":"See Something, Say Something, Sell Something!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But I hope he&#8217;s not selling fake Prada bags or anything like that, lest the mayor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2010\/02\/25\/2010-02-25_millionaires_on_welfare_are_busted.html\">great copyright infringement squad<\/a> goes and picks on him, what with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/06\/2010-05-06_good_for_you_mr_city_hero_praise_biz_are_booming_for_alert_vendor.html\">all this awesome attention he&#8217;s getting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The handbag vendor who alerted cops to Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s car bomb is back at work, basking in attention, gratitude and a healthy jump in sales.<\/p>\n<p>Duane Jackson, 58, says revenues are up 30% since he returned to work at 45th St. and Broadway Sunday &#8212; a day after he spotted the smoking Nissan Pathfinder.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a constant crowd around his booth. Tourists request autographs and snapshots. New Yorkers &#8212; and even some cops &#8212; offer hugs, handshakes and thanks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I hope he&#8217;s not selling fake Prada bags or anything like that, lest the mayor&#8217;s great copyright infringement squad goes and picks on him, what with all this awesome attention he&#8217;s getting: The handbag vendor who alerted cops to Faisal Shahzad&#8217;s car bomb is back at work, basking in attention, gratitude and a healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995","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=5995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5996,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5995\/revisions\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}