{"id":72150,"date":"2020-03-28T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=72150"},"modified":"2020-03-28T23:59:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T03:59:12","slug":"saturday-night-grand-central-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/03\/28\/saturday-night-grand-central-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Grand Central Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m getting a little stir crazy\u2026 It&#8217;s two weeks we&#8217;ve spent in the house. Luckily I&#8217;m surrounded by wonderful people here\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I got a new New Yorker magazine today\u2026 I noticed the cover. It was a beautiful painting of the great Hall at Grand Central Station. The light was streaming in and there was a guy mopping the floor\u2026 No one else. I was puzzled by the picture\u2026 Then I realized locked in their homes right now. I bet it looks like that. It was a striking image for one of the busiest places on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\ufffc<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72148\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 113w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 225w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 768w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 948w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/img_5488.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of the day several years ago where I was filming an IBM commercial in that very room. I had to stand there for about three hours in the making of the movie and I swear I must&#8217;ve seen 10,000 people. It was kind of an eerie juxtaposition\ufffc Of memory\ufffc<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-72150-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jc_ibmad.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jc_ibmad.mp4\">http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jc_ibmad.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Stay safe and sane everybody<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite Sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to admit I&#8217;m getting a little stir crazy\u2026 It&#8217;s two weeks we&#8217;ve spent in the house. Luckily I&#8217;m surrounded by wonderful people here\u2026\u2026 I got a new New Yorker magazine today\u2026 I noticed the cover. It was a beautiful painting of the great Hall at Grand Central Station. The light was streaming in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/03\/28\/saturday-night-grand-central-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; Grand Central Station<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72151,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72150\/revisions\/72151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}