{"id":190432,"date":"2009-11-27T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/27\/we-all-went-to-manhattan-today\/"},"modified":"2009-11-27T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T21:17:00","slug":"we-all-went-to-manhattan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/27\/we-all-went-to-manhattan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Went to Manhattan Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We drove down from my mother-in-law&#8217;s to Washington Heights, where we parked, and took the subway (the A train) down.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie wanted to go to the American Girl<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Place on 49th &#038; 5th Avenue.  She wanted her doll repaired, an arm need to be reattached, and she hoped to have it addressed at the doll &#8220;hospital&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, between a computer glitch, and the fact that it was one of the original style dolls, we had to leave it there, and they will mail it to us. <\/p>\n<p>To say that Charlie was less than amused to be in the store would be a gross understatement.<\/p>\n<p>He was in a state of blind panic and revulsion at having to cross the threshold into that problematic palace of pervasive pinkness.<\/p>\n<p>By way of apology, I took him to the Sony Wonder Technology Lab at Madison Avenue and 56th St.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sort of digital playground, with robots, and motion capture dirven dancing avatars and suchlike&#8230;.Best of all, it was free. <\/p>\n<p>We had some quintessentially New York moments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We bought hot pretzels from a street vendor.<\/li>\n<li> On our way back on the subway, some guy shouted that he was Jesus Christ, then apologized, and got off at his stop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted via mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We drove down from my mother-in-law&#8217;s to Washington Heights, where we parked, and took the subway (the A train) down. Natalie wanted to go to the American Girl&reg; Place on 49th &#038; 5th Avenue. She wanted her doll repaired, an arm need to be reattached, and she hoped to have it addressed at the doll &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}