{"id":365,"date":"2012-06-11T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/new-york-city\/"},"modified":"2012-06-11T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T14:19:15","slug":"new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gisele and I are in the City this week. We&#8217;re staying in a Holiday Inn about 2 blocks from Central Park, and one subway stop from Broadway and Times Square.  We are here with our friends Les and Sonia. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday we went to the 911 Memorial at Ground Zero, and then Chinatown. Saturday was the Guggenheim Museum and Times Square.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Gisele911.jpg\" alt=\"Gisele at 911 memorial\" width=500\/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we went to a matinee performance of Porgy and Bess. The Tonys were presented shortly after our show ended, and we found that it had received the award for best musical revival, and the actress playing Bess was best leading actress in a musical.  Personally I enjoyed the play, but can&#8217;t appreciate the operatic style of singing. I think it might have made sense in unamplified history when they needed to project their voice through the whole theater, but in modern days I think they should update to a more natural open sound. Anyway, I guess I&#8217;m unrefined. <\/p>\n<p>Today we are going to the Museum of Natural History. Tomorrow we take a train to New Haven, Connecticut where Les and I will attend a biology conference. Les is presenting a paper on some work we did together. <\/p>\n<p>Then on Friday Gisele and I are driving up to Maine where we will stay at a bed and breakfast for 3 nights. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Derek is home taking care of Apollo and our house. It&#8217;s nice to have someone we can depend on and trust. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gisele and I are in the City this week. We&#8217;re staying in a Holiday Inn about 2 blocks from Central Park, and one subway stop from Broadway and Times Square. We are here with our friends Les and Sonia. On Friday we went to the 911 Memorial at Ground Zero, and then Chinatown. Saturday was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}