{"id":511,"date":"2016-12-10T22:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T03:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/?p=511"},"modified":"2016-12-20T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T03:56:39","slug":"second-avenue-reminds-me-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/2016\/12\/second-avenue-reminds-me-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Second avenue reminds me of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-513\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/governorandrewcuomo\/31166269570\/in\/album-72157676032223891\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31166269570_d0c0eed57a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31166269570_d0c0eed57a_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/31166269570_d0c0eed57a_z-550x329.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Office of Governor Cuomo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1956 Isaac Asimov wrote a little song about the Second Avenue Subway, set to the tune of a classic Christmas carol.  Fifteen years later <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=nFdOG5JxWZoC&#038;lpg=PA161&#038;pg=PA160#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\">he published it<\/a> in his <em>Treasury of Humor<\/em>.  I&#8217;ll let you follow the link and read it, because I don&#8217;t want to spoil the joke.<\/p>\n<p>I totally want to sing this song at the opening ceremonies.  Who&#8217;s with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1956 Isaac Asimov wrote a little song about the Second Avenue Subway, set to the tune of a classic Christmas carol. Fifteen years later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grieve-smith.com\/ftn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}