{"id":6661,"date":"2011-08-20T07:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2011-08-20T07:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T12:37:48","slug":"you_might_not_keep_them_around_once_they_have_children_and_realize_how_shitty_the_schools_are_around_bushwick_but_theyll_always_remember_that_foolish_summer_when_they_tried_to_grow_a_mustache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/you_might_not_keep_them_around_once_they_have_children_and_realize_how_shitty_the_schools_are_around_bushwick_but_theyll_always_remember_that_foolish_summer_when_they_tried_to_grow_a_mustache.html","title":{"rendered":"You Might Not Keep Them Around Once They Have Children And Realize How Shitty The Schools Are Around Bushwick, But They&#8217;ll Always Remember That Foolish Summer When They Tried To Grow A Mustache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city&#8217;s quasi-public\/quasi-private tourism arm is marketing T-shirts to a demographic roughly defined as &#8220;the actors who you see spray painting in that new Converse ad&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Earlier this month, the city&#8217;s tourism arm, NYC &#038; Company, reintroduced its staid online store with a line of T-shirts printed with neon colors and bubblegum fonts and advertised on models wearing mustaches posing before brick walls.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>In a departure for municipal merchandise, five of the shirts name-check the individual boroughs. A sixth shows the familiar Bloomberg-era boxy &#8220;NYC&#8221; logo dissolving into transgressive spray-paint drips, above dripping maps of the boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The decision to devote shirts to specific boroughs, [NYC &#038; Company&#8217;s creative director] said, followed a trend and fit the city&#8217;s mission to promote tourism beyond Manhattan. [The creative director of the company that designed the T-shirts] said young people make up a significant population of the outer boroughs. &#8220;You go to Sunnyside or Astoria in Queens, and there&#8217;s people in their 20s now sort of mixed together with everyone,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city&#8217;s quasi-public\/quasi-private tourism arm is marketing T-shirts to a demographic roughly defined as &#8220;the actors who you see spray painting in that new Converse ad&#8221;: Earlier this month, the city&#8217;s tourism arm, NYC &#038; Company, reintroduced its staid online store with a line of T-shirts printed with neon colors and bubblegum fonts and advertised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661","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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}