{"id":555,"date":"2006-11-07T00:42:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/gotta-get-em-all\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T00:42:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:42:52","slug":"gotta-get-em-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/07\/gotta-get-em-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotta get &#8217;em all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short post today (and technically it&#8217;s after midnight), but I&#8217;m going to try keeping up daily posting for most of this month in sympathy with my friends who are doing <a href=http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/>NaNoWriMo<\/a>.  Christy&#8217;s going for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), and even though I missed a couple days to start, I&#8217;m vaguely going to try to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I finally visited Staten Island, the only borough of New York City that I had not yet visited since moving here.  I live in Manhattan, I&#8217;ve been to Brooklyn to Williamsburg and Prospect Park, I&#8217;ve gone to Astoria in Queens, and been to a couple Yankees games plus the <a href=http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/chihuly.php>Chihuly exhibition in the Botanical Gardens<\/a> in the Bronx.  But not Staten Island.  <\/p>\n<p>So yesterday, I biked down to Battery Park, and hopped on the Staten Island Ferry.  Which is free.  Such a deal.  The ferry is a great ride.  Great views of the downtown skyline as we left,the port and close-up views of the Statue of Liberty as we went past.  Plus, I just like ferries.  I really enjoyed taking the San Francisco-Oakland ferry when I used to take it in the Bay Area.  This ferry ride reminded me of that experience, as I had a big goofy grin as we were cruising along.  Watching the tourists all try to snap photos of the Statue of Liberty was pretty entertaining as well.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island itself wasn&#8217;t that exciting.  Most of what I saw made it look like a typical suburb, with McDonald&#8217;s and Subway restaurants near the ferry.  I had a bike map, so I headed down the east coast of the island, under the Verrazano Narrows bridge, and then along the south shore of Staten Island.  There&#8217;s a nice little boardwalk along the beach there with a bike lane, so I cruised along for a while, looking out at the water and enjoying the view.  But it was getting cold (45 degrees) and I was getting tired, so I turned back after 7 miles or so.  <\/p>\n<p>Back to the ferry, where I huddled inside for warmth, back to Manhattan, back to the apartment for a hot shower.  I need to figure out the right layered approach to cold-weather exercising if I keep this up.  Or possibly break down and join a gym.  But I hate that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short post today (and technically it&#8217;s after midnight), but I&#8217;m going to try keeping up daily posting for most of this month in sympathy with my friends who are doing NaNoWriMo. Christy&#8217;s going for NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), and even though I missed a couple days to start, I&#8217;m vaguely going to try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}