{"id":6823,"date":"2011-12-01T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2011-12-01T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:22:00","slug":"twenty_years_from_now_think_back_on_this_and_know_that_we_tried_to_tell_you_but_you_just_didnt_listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/12\/twenty_years_from_now_think_back_on_this_and_know_that_we_tried_to_tell_you_but_you_just_didnt_listen.html","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years From Now, Think Back On This And Know That We Tried To Tell You But You Just Didn&#8217;t Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/bronx-student-turns-grim-poem-grimy-subway-tunnel-article-1.984304\">Kids today are so bubbly and positive it kills me<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For 20 years, a pessimistic poem installed on overhead beams in the Times Square subway station has provoked and puzzled commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Now a Bronx college student has sneakily transformed the peevish public art into an uplifting ode.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time I passed it, I thought, &#8216;Wow, that&#8217;s a really depressing poem to have in the heart of New York City,[&#8216;]&#8221; said [the student], 20, of Riverdale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took the same poem and just made it more optimistic.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids today are so bubbly and positive it kills me: For 20 years, a pessimistic poem installed on overhead beams in the Times Square subway station has provoked and puzzled commuters. Now a Bronx college student has sneakily transformed the peevish public art into an uplifting ode. &#8220;Every time I passed it, I thought, &#8216;Wow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","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=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}