{"id":280478,"date":"2018-10-18T04:12:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/18\/jasonfry-new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or\/"},"modified":"2018-12-07T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:17:07","slug":"jasonfry-new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/18\/jasonfry-new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-280478 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/18\/jasonfry-new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or\/attachment\/280479\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/tumblr_pfp3ocJiCQ1qzwodio1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/tumblr_pfp3ocJiCQ1qzwodio1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/tumblr_pfp3ocJiCQ1qzwodio1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonfry.tumblr.com\/post\/178500796806\/new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or-unhelpful-what\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">jasonfry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>New Yorkers aren\u2019t unfriendly or unhelpful. What folks who think that miss is that we\u2019re always jammed into a too small subway car or a too narrow sidewalk or a too cramped elevator. We don\u2019t have enough physical space, so we give each other psychological space by minding our business. But if someone needs help, we\u2019re there.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I was riding the 7 train out to Citi Field. At Grand Central, a guy who seemed to be somewhere on the eccentric\/addled scale got on and yelled \u201cmy man\u2019s going to Kennedy \u2013 JFK airport. Y&#8217;all got this?\u201d He was intense enough that I looked up and saw he was pointing to a puzzled-looking Asian man who\u2019d gotten on in front of him. He said it again \u2013 \u201cJFK airport, y&#8217;all got this\u201d and stepped back onto the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The folks in the subway car started talking, verified the route, talked to the man to make sure he understood, found someone in the car who was getting off at the right stop, and deputized him to go with the man to the E train. Y&#8217;all got this? Yeah, we got this. We\u2019re New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jasonfry: New Yorkers aren\u2019t unfriendly or unhelpful. What folks who think that miss is that we\u2019re always jammed into a too small subway car or a too narrow sidewalk or a too cramped elevator. We don\u2019t have enough physical space, so we give each other psychological space by minding our business. But if someone needs &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/18\/jasonfry-new-yorkers-arent-unfriendly-or\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2260,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280480,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280478\/revisions\/280480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}