{"id":991,"date":"2006-04-19T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/isnt_this_what_libraries_and_bus_stations_are_for.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:38:09","slug":"isnt_this_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/isnt_this_what.html","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t This What Libraries And Bus Stations Are For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/people_were_tal.html\">the $22 bagel<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacepress.org\/media\/storage\/paper424\/news\/2006\/04\/19\/Features\/Nearby.Business.Commercializes.The.MidDay.Siesta-1859968.shtml\">the $14 nap<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>After parting a light-blocking black fabric &#8220;door,&#8221; clients will have officially traveled from the fast-paced life of New York City into the soothing atmosphere of the pod room. The room is dimly lit-almost to total darkness-and features two rows of four pearl white, circular sleep pods all draped in a blanket of hypnotizing scent and sound. The unmistakable sound in the room reminds one of the background noise of an airplane&#8217;s cabin. The sound acts as an auditory buffer. And the experience is not simply an audio\/visual one. The enticing scent that fills the space was developed by an aroma therapist and is aptly dubbed the &#8220;Elixir of Sleep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once you settle into your pod, the first thing you will notice is how comfortable the leather seats are. Your host, a young entrepreneur named Larry, will then proceed to pivot your pod to the angle of your liking, in which you can achieve a &#8220;full Batman&#8221; position if you so choose. After selecting your angle, you will cover your ears with top quality noise cancelling Bose headphones that emit an assortment of sleep-aiding ambient sounds. You will then envelop your face with a sleep mask, and you will finally begin to count sheep.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse &#8212; the $22 bagel or the $14 nap: After parting a light-blocking black fabric &#8220;door,&#8221; clients will have officially traveled from the fast-paced life of New York City into the soothing atmosphere of the pod room. The room is dimly lit-almost to total darkness-and features two rows of four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}