{"id":6078,"date":"2010-06-15T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6078"},"modified":"2010-06-15T07:27:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T12:27:34","slug":"youd_think_since_they_took_the_trouble_of_traipsing_over_to_the_post_office_theyd_also_throw_in_a_bag_of_bagels_or_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/youd_think_since_they_took_the_trouble_of_traipsing_over_to_the_post_office_theyd_also_throw_in_a_bag_of_bagels_or_something.html","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;d Think Since They Took The Trouble Of Traipsing Over To The Post Office They&#8217;d Also Throw In A Bag Of Bagels . . . Or Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because someone asks for one particular thing doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t use your head. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/06\/15\/2010-06-15_to_henry_chelune_from_nyc_news_gets_action_for_lonely_gi_as_hizzoner_makes_his_f.html\">At least don&#8217;t pat yourself on the back about it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Army Pfc. Henry Chelune sent The News a letter last week asking for help getting a New York City flag and subway map.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would be a huge morale booster for me,&#8221; wrote Chelune, 25, a Ridgewood native who has been stationed in the volatile Kandahar Province since January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have another six months in country and would like nothing more than to hang the flag of my city in my [sleeping quarters].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The News picked up a subway map for Chelune. And in honor of Flag Day on Monday, Hizzoner donated the 5-by-8-foot New York City flag that has been flying outside City Hall for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg even scrawled a personal message on the banner: &#8220;Stay safe and thanks for serving.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And was the subway map even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/20\/nyregion\/20train.html\">current<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because someone asks for one particular thing doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t use your head. At least don&#8217;t pat yourself on the back about it: Army Pfc. Henry Chelune sent The News a letter last week asking for help getting a New York City flag and subway map. &#8220;This would be a huge morale booster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078","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=6078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6079,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6078\/revisions\/6079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}