{"id":6664,"date":"2011-08-21T07:36:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T12:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2011-08-21T07:36:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T12:36:51","slug":"misses_dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/misses_dash.html","title":{"rendered":"Misses Dash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens address dashes aren&#8217;t a pain because the post office needs them (they don&#8217;t &#8212; their machines ignore them) or call center people from outside the area misunderstand you (I think they generally get what you&#8217;re trying to say) but rather because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2011\/08\/21\/2011-08-21_a_dash_of_confusion_why_do_queens_addresses_take_a_hyphen_residents_ask.html\">hardware stores don&#8217;t stock them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But the real problem comes when you want to replace the dash, said [a Middle Village resident]. Recently, [she] arrived at her home and the dash was missing from her front door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I ran to two hardware stores and they don&#8217;t carry it anymore,&#8221; she said, noting that a Home Depot vendor saved the day when he custom-made one for her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to buy a dash in Queens you really have to put some elbow grease into finding one,&#8221; she added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens address dashes aren&#8217;t a pain because the post office needs them (they don&#8217;t &#8212; their machines ignore them) or call center people from outside the area misunderstand you (I think they generally get what you&#8217;re trying to say) but rather because hardware stores don&#8217;t stock them: But the real problem comes when you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6665,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}