{"id":16921,"date":"2018-09-14T23:32:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T03:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2018-09-14T23:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T03:33:43","slug":"new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16921","title":{"rendered":"New York City&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just got back here an hour ago from the trip to NYC and all I can say is that it was a frickin hoot&#8230;walked almost 8 miles over the course of the day and I am sore right now but it was so darn worth it&#8230;when we got off the bus in town, it was a two block walk and we were standing in the middle of Times Square with all of the other tourists that were gawking just like we were&#8230;oh, let&#8217;s stop here to acknowledge that I had the best tour guide in my daughter&#8230;she knows how to get everywhere so all I had to do was follow her and that made for such a stress free day&#8230;and she likes being the navigator so I just sat back and let her&#8230;.we saw Rockefeller Center, Central Park and many, many other places that were just abstracts to me until now and now I&#8217;ve walked through it and seen lots of it and that is so cool&#8230;we spent some time trying to find the &#8220;Doctor Who&#8221; rock in Central Park but didn&#8217;t&#8230;but the capper of the day was going to the Statue of Liberty and being able to climb up inside of it all the way to the crown&#8230;something that only 1% of the visitors get to do and that had to be reserved in April to get in&#8230;the spiral staircase that led to the top was 165 steps but the smallest, steepest steps I have ever seen and so cramped that I was banging my shoulders on the handrails all the way up and needed to pull myself up with my arms to make it&#8230;after the Statue, we went to Columbus circle at the entrance to Central Park to meet up with one of my sons and his girlfriend and had a nice talk and lots of laughs before heading back to the bus for the ride back here&#8230;one of the coolest days that I can remember and have so many memories that I will be processing for a long, long time&#8230;and I even have lots of photos that my daughter took with her Nikon that I have to download to my computer before I head home on Sunday&#8230;.what a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;just got back here an hour ago from the trip to NYC and all I can say is that it was a frickin hoot&#8230;walked almost 8 miles over the course of the day and I am sore right now but it was so darn worth it&#8230;when we got off the bus in town, it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=16921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New York City&#8230;.<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-16921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}