{"id":1937,"date":"2011-05-27T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-05-31T19:44:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T03:44:01","slug":"nyc-day-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"NYC day 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday afternoon Sam and I flew to New York City to visit her friend M (who had very generously invited us to stay at her apartment in mid-town). \u00a0When we walked out of the airport to find our pre-booked towncar at 1am EST we discovered a &#8220;pick ups&#8221; lane at JFK that was nothing like LAX (or any other American airport I&#8217;ve seen). \u00a0Typically in airports (and LAX has an army of security officers to enforce this) the pick-up lanes can only be used if you actually see your party and can swoop in, pick them up, and get the hell out.<\/p>\n<p>At JFK people just park. \u00a0Three lanes deep. \u00a0Get out of their car and wander. \u00a0Occasionally a tow truck meanders through and attempts to warn people that they&#8217;ll get towed if they leave their car. \u00a0However, these people say &#8220;yeah, whatever&#8221; and wander off again since being bumper-to-bumper with the next car, the tow truck wouldn&#8217;t be able to pull the parked car out anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Finally our car came after about 20 minutes and we were on our way.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday afternoon Sam and I flew to New York City to visit her friend M (who had very generously invited us to stay at her apartment in mid-town). \u00a0When we walked out of the airport to find our pre-booked towncar at 1am EST we discovered a &#8220;pick ups&#8221; lane at JFK that was nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}