{"id":714,"date":"2006-02-17T07:49:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/silly_the_inverted_pyramid_is_for_sissy_papers_like_the_times.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T07:49:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:49:57","slug":"silly_the_inver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/silly_the_inver.html","title":{"rendered":"Silly, The Inverted Pyramid Is For Sissy Papers Like The Times!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at the Post gets it &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/60059.htm\">reducing salacious, violent stories into theatrical components is the new inverted pyramid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>This is a love story with a moral: Don&#8217;t dally with your friend&#8217;s mommy or you might find a Valentine Day&#8217;s card carved on your face.<\/p>\n<p>The characters: Elias Nazario, 18; his mom, Nelly; his pal Robert Quinones, 20; and her former boyfriend, a man known only as Freddy.<\/p>\n<p>The place: 852 McDonald Ave. in Borough Park, where the aforementioned reside.<\/p>\n<p>The back story: Robert is having a dalliance with Nelly under the unsuspecting eyes of Elias and the man known only as Freddy.<\/p>\n<p>The action: Elias and Freddy find out about the affair on Valentine&#8217;s day, and Elias slashes Robert&#8217;s face, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>The result: Robert gets stitches. Elias gets Rikers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the past tense is for wussies like the Daily News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On Valentine&#8217;s Day morning, Freddy goes to work. At 7:55 a.m., Robert wakes up to find several deep cuts on his face and Elias standing over him with a sharp metal object, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Elias flees and his mother calls 911. Cops arrive. Robert is taken to Lutheran Hospital, where he gets stitches for the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Elias did it, he tells the cops.<\/p>\n<p>The youth is picked up at his aunt&#8217;s home on Ocean Avenue and taken to the 66th Precinct stationhouse, where he is formally arrested at 2 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, he is arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of assault, menacing, harassment and weapons possession.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to make bail of $2,500, he is lodged in Rikers.<\/p>\n<p>Nelly stonewalls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing happened here. I have no comment. It&#8217;s all lies,&#8221; she said yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> the way we like to read these stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone at the Post gets it &#8212; reducing salacious, violent stories into theatrical components is the new inverted pyramid: This is a love story with a moral: Don&#8217;t dally with your friend&#8217;s mommy or you might find a Valentine Day&#8217;s card carved on your face. The characters: Elias Nazario, 18; his mom, Nelly; his pal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}