{"id":331,"date":"2003-12-06T02:55:48","date_gmt":"2003-12-06T10:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=331"},"modified":"2003-12-06T02:55:48","modified_gmt":"2003-12-06T10:55:48","slug":"107070814822556141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/107070814822556141\/","title":{"rendered":"107070814822556141"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Morning News correspondant Rosecrans Baldwin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/new_york_new_york\/my_kind_of_town.php\">chooses his own assignment<\/a>: walk the length of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>He starts out at 5am and in the course of walking the 13.5 miles of the island&#8217;s length he seizes upon a moment where even in a huge metropolis, the city can belong to the citizen:<\/p>\n<div>Sometime in the early morning, just before Central Park, I called my wife because I was simply too happy to contain myself. I had to tell her something, but I couldn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt put it into words. Perhaps I had never been so alive. New York can be like that \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd once in a while the city slows down and becomes ours, we look up, we see ourselves as a part of something very fine and rare, green and black, slowly growing. Not I am, but there it is. That New York exists is a miracle, and for its citizens, the city offers as good a shot at transcendence as any forest or cathedral. The awareness of being part of something more sublime \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd this crumbling, singing city, and all our lives crumbling and singing too \u00ef\u00bf\u00bd somehow walking the island\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds body before people are on the streets makes the chance to have that feeling much greater. It\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds a fleeting moment, only two seconds long, but it\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds there.<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/helloha.blogspot.com\/\">portage<\/a> for the link <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Morning News correspondant Rosecrans Baldwin chooses his own assignment: walk the length of Manhattan. He starts out at 5am and in the course of walking the 13.5 miles of the island&#8217;s length he seizes upon a moment where even in a huge metropolis, the city can belong to the citizen: Sometime in the early morning, just before Central Park, I called my wife because I was simply too happy to contain myself. I had to tell her something, but I couldn\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdt put it into words. Perhaps I had never been so alive. New York can be like &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-5l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}