{"id":667,"date":"2006-02-06T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/there_is_no_metropolitan_diary_without_a_crosstown_bus.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:51:59","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T18:51:59","slug":"there_is_no_met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/there_is_no_met.html","title":{"rendered":"There Is No Metropolitan Diary Without A Crosstown Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take the ubiquitous crosstown bus and cellphone combination and inexplicably add an opera singer and you&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/06\/nyregion\/06diary.html\/partner\/rssnyt\">the latest Metropolitan Diary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>My daughter, a social worker at Bellevue Hospital Center, was returning to her apartment on the crosstown bus after work. It was crowded and noisy &#8212; a situation not helped by one woman&#8217;s loud cellphone conversation.<\/p>\n<p>In exasperation, one passenger began singing opera in an effort to drown her out. This did not help matters. The chatterer, whose volume rose steadily as she competed with &#8220;La Boh\u00c3\u00a8me,&#8221; explained to her cellphone buddy: &#8220;It&#8217;s a little hard for me to hear you; someone on my bus is singing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the ubiquitous crosstown bus and cellphone combination and inexplicably add an opera singer and you&#8217;ve got the latest Metropolitan Diary: My daughter, a social worker at Bellevue Hospital Center, was returning to her apartment on the crosstown bus after work. It was crowded and noisy &#8212; a situation not helped by one woman&#8217;s loud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metropolitan_diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","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=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}