{"id":693,"date":"2006-02-14T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/sign_a_waiver.html"},"modified":"2006-02-14T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T17:56:09","slug":"sign_a_waiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/sign_a_waiver.html","title":{"rendered":"Sign A Waiver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/391195p-331819c.html\">Brooklyn bid to break snow ball record runs into legal obstacles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Even after Mother Nature dumped record snow on the city, there was still a you-know-what chance in hell of the largest snowball fight in history happening in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Since announcing a bid to bring more than 3,000 frost flingers to Prospect Park, Cobble Hill chemist Jonathan Rosen has lined up everything he needs to shatter an existing Guinness World Record &#8212; except insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody really wants to touch this because anything with the word &#8216;fight&#8217; in the title just sounds scary,&#8221; said Rosen, 31.<\/p>\n<p>A fear of lawsuits forced Rosen to resist holding the fight on Sunday, when New York got dumped with its own record-breaking 26.9 inches of snow. It was the first storm since the Queens native announced his plans in December.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Rosen was hoping to melt the existing record set by 3,084 people in Wauconda, Ill. &#8212; certified a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to admit, I was pretty bummed out most of the weekend because it just seemed like the timing would have been perfect,&#8221; Rosen said. &#8220;Still, you have to think in a city like this, where there&#8217;s a will there&#8217;s a way.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn bid to break snow ball record runs into legal obstacles: Even after Mother Nature dumped record snow on the city, there was still a you-know-what chance in hell of the largest snowball fight in history happening in Brooklyn. Since announcing a bid to bring more than 3,000 frost flingers to Prospect Park, Cobble Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}