{"id":976,"date":"2006-04-17T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/meta_metropolitan_diary_just_add_kids.html"},"modified":"2006-04-17T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T18:23:34","slug":"meta_metropolit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/meta_metropolit.html","title":{"rendered":"Meta Metropolitan Diary: Just Add Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/17\/nyregion\/17diary.html?ex=1302926400&#038;en=d4447ef7d628d74c&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Metropolitan Diary jumps the shark<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On a recent Sunday afternoon the following scene unfolded on an uptown bus: A mother, her sons (each about 6 years old) and their aunt boarded the bus. The boys sat with their mom across from their aunt. The dark-haired boy began a continuous complaint about wanting to take a taxi, NOT a bus. This tirade continued for several blocks, prompting the light-haired boy to cross over and sit with his aunt.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the aunt spoke up and said, &#8220;Henry, there&#8217;s someone on this bus listening carefully to what you&#8217;re saying and on one of these coming Monday mornings, we will be reading about this scene in the Metropolitan Diary.&#8221; Smiles crept across both boys&#8217; faces.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew your fans included 6-year-olds<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metropolitan Diary jumps the shark: On a recent Sunday afternoon the following scene unfolded on an uptown bus: A mother, her sons (each about 6 years old) and their aunt boarded the bus. The boys sat with their mom across from their aunt. The dark-haired boy began a continuous complaint about wanting to take a [&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-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metropolitan_diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}