{"id":2687,"date":"2013-10-27T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:58:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T02:58:33","slug":"quick-trip-to-nyc-october-21-25-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Quick trip to NYC, October 21 &#8211; 25 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2691\" alt=\"IMG_1016\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1016-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1016-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1016-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1016-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\nDrawing a crowd in New York &#8212; Upper West Side. An artist has made this &#8220;graffiti&#8221; drawing on the side of a building &#8212; protected by a sheet of plexiglass&#8230; people take photos. It was a controversy &#8212; apparently Bloomberg didn&#8217;t like it &#8212; (there were others around the city) he said it was graffiti and should not be allowed&#8230;. Bloomberg! spoilsport!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2690\" alt=\"IMG_1017\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1017-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\n9\/11 Memorial &#8212; mostly just felt sad.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2692\" alt=\"IMG_1009\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1009-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1009-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1009-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1009-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2696\" alt=\"IMG_1024\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-625x833.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-625x833.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1024-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\nStrawberry Fields &#8212; Bob and Judy at the John Lennon Memorial site in Central Park<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2695\" alt=\"IMG_1023\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1023-625x833.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1023-625x833.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1023-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1023-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\nBob&#8217;s boyhood home in Teaneck<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2688\" alt=\"IMG_0994\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0994-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0994-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0994-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0994-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2689\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2689\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2689\" alt=\"The ice cream shop -- still there!\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1005-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1005-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1005-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1005-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ice cream shop &#8212; still there!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Quilts at the American Folk Art Museum<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2694\" alt=\"IMG_1030\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1030-625x468.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1030-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1030-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1030-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\nOur New Yorker friends from Mexico at La Mirabelle restaurant &#8212; French bistro cuisine and the singing French waitress, Danielle, also an artist &#8212; I purchased one of her small paintings of Provence.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2693\" alt=\"IMG_1036\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1036-625x316.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1036-625x316.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1036-150x76.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1036-450x228.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> the lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Members dining room &#8212; Pat and Richard from Sag Harbor and Barry and Elizabeth from the Upper West side &#8212; what a treat!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2699\" alt=\"IMG_1037\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1037-625x351.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1037-625x351.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1037-150x84.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1037-450x252.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2698\" alt=\"IMG_1038\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1038-625x459.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1038-625x459.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1038-150x110.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1038-450x330.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing a crowd in New York &#8212; Upper West Side. An artist has made this &#8220;graffiti&#8221; drawing on the side of a building &#8212; protected by a sheet of plexiglass&#8230; people take photos. It was a controversy &#8212; apparently Bloomberg didn&#8217;t like it &#8212; (there were others around the city) he said it was graffiti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}