{"id":1300,"date":"2008-08-08T08:26:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T08:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2008-08-08T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T08:26:23","slug":"the_city_24_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"The City #24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’m getting to work a little late today because of a blood test (cholesteral). Coming out of the subway on 6th and 40th, by Bryant Park, suddenly the line up the steps stop. There is a crowd, and I think, “What is going on?” Finally, I’m getting closer to the top and I hear all kinds of screaming and hoards of people. Then I though, “Oh, yeah, its the Good Morning America Summer Concert Series<\/a> in Bryant Park – they do this every Friday.
\nThere is a cop right there at the subway exit blocking entrance to the sidewalk leading east along 40th St., across the street from the park. I had to actually show my work ID to get through the barricades.
\nSwarms of pre-pubescent girls everywhere – all texting like mad, all taking photos of themselves and their friends with their cell phones. I guess they started lining up last night. They had sleeping bags. I wondered why, on the way home last night, GMA and Bryant Park had all kinds of extra barricades and “General Admission Signs” all over.
\nIt’s the Jonas Brothers<\/a>! Damn Nickelodeon, or is it Disney?
\nOverheard: “I’ve got to get home. I’ve been up 24 hours.” That isn’t so bad, but as I turned the corner onto 5th Ave…. Okay, I’m four stories up in CPG and on the other side of the block and I hear them screaming… anyway, I turned the corner and there was a bus for, I guess, the brothers, girls everyone. They were kissing the bus. They were actually kissing… the… bus.
\nWell, there you go. A “typical” day in the City. By the way, Feist certainly didn’t get this kind of attention. Hum….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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