{"id":9,"date":"2011-07-15T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=9"},"modified":"2013-11-17T03:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T03:31:40","slug":"nyc-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"NYC – Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Took the train from Philly this morning (man, that Philadelphia train station is beautiful!) and arrived in New York City just a little after lunchtime.<\/p>\n

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We navigated the subway to our hotel (a tiny little place with tiny little rooms — but very “efficient”), then walked a couple of blocks over to the Museum of Modern Art.\u00a0 Saw several very nice — and many very famous — works there, including Van Gogh’s Starry Night<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Then we walked down to Times Square.\u00a0 Explored the Hershey Store, the M&M Store, the Toys ‘R’ Us… all the things you come to NYC for!<\/p>\n

We met my cousin for dinner at Madison Square Park’s “Shake Shack” which was really good.\u00a0 The line stretched forever, but moved fairly quickly.\u00a0 We ordered great burgers and shakes (Diana’s burger had cheese-stuffed portobello mushrooms that she said were awesome).\u00a0 The park is beneath the MET Life building and within site of other great sites (Flatiron building, for example).<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we’re going to go see a show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Took the train from Philly this morning (man, that Philadelphia train station is beautiful!) and arrived in New York City just a little after lunchtime. We navigated the subway to our hotel (a tiny little place with tiny little rooms — but very “efficient”), then walked a couple of blocks over to the Museum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}