{"id":7168,"date":"2012-04-20T11:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2012-04-20T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:15:31","slug":"if_youre_losing_hundreds_of_dollars_on_a_stupid_carnival_game_then_you_deserve_all_the_lazer_tag_you_can_possibly_tolerate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/if_youre_losing_hundreds_of_dollars_on_a_stupid_carnival_game_then_you_deserve_all_the_lazer_tag_you_can_possibly_tolerate.html","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Losing &#8220;Hundreds Of Dollars&#8221; On A Stupid Carnival Game Then You Deserve All The Lazer Tag You Can Possibly Tolerate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/city_taps_zamperla_to_take_over_zUWRs6D61YYldmcosGnZJJ\">Interesting reframing of the charms of old Coney Island<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The city is finally cleaning up a longtime seedy strip near the Coney Island boardwalk that had been filled with rigged carnival games and ripped off beachgoers for years.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving various complaints late last year, the city cleared out the old-school carnival games &#8212; including one booth called &#8220;Gangster Cigars&#8221; that was caught ripping customers off on a hidden camera by Arnold Diaz of Fox NY&#8217;s &#8220;Shame on You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patrons would routinely lose hundreds of dollars trying to toss a rigged ping-pong ball through a hole to win a flat-screen TV.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting reframing of the charms of old Coney Island: The city is finally cleaning up a longtime seedy strip near the Coney Island boardwalk that had been filled with rigged carnival games and ripped off beachgoers for years. . . . Upon receiving various complaints late last year, the city cleared out the old-school carnival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168","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=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7259,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/7259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}