{"id":191,"date":"2008-08-11T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T10:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-08-11T03:21:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T01:21:48","slug":"taxis-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Taxis in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has ever been to New York City knows it&#8217;s a trip, and anyone who has ever taken a New York City taxi has had an adventure.\u00a0 We had one such adventure yesterday.  We were with my grandfather in New York City.  A few of us don&#8217;t walk well, and so we needed a cab to go a relatively short distance.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;s=AARTsJoeuOGMmXMxfbsV9ddXSh3_ssy8Ow&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=114903546109566081645.000454249c176325521b7&amp;ll=40.769004,-73.957515&amp;spn=0.009751,0.012875&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat you&#8217;re looking at is 2nd Ave.  We were at the green dot and wanted to go to the red dot.  That&#8217;s between three and four blocks.  And so it&#8217;s a bit hard to imagine, but the taxi cab got lost.  He figured out that he was lost when both my grandfather and I started yelling at him, \u201c<strong>You&#8217;re going the wrong way!<\/strong>\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>Meter off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who has ever been to New York City knows it&#8217;s a trip, and anyone who has ever taken a New York City taxi has had an adventure.\u00a0 We had one such adventure yesterday. We were with my grandfather in New York City. A few of us don&#8217;t walk well, and so we needed a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taxis in NYC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118,117],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-stuff","tag-nyc","tag-taxis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}