{"id":2505,"date":"2008-05-02T12:18:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2008-05-01T09:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T14:38:06","slug":"excellent-adventure-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Adventure, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

It smelled lovely in the hotel room on Sunday. Bun had brought her bouquet from the wedding:<\/p>\n

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…which was a real work of art.<\/p>\n

But then it was off to a big day of chasing around.<\/p>\n

First: Brunch at my stepson’s new in-laws in Brooklyn, not far from the Brooklyn Museum…:<\/p>\n

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…with its famous chorus of synchronized water fountains (which don’t lend themselves to still photography).<\/p>\n

Of course, for Zam the main event, in his little 15 year old skateboard-obsessed mind, was yet to come; the Brooklyn Banks:<\/p>\n

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Above is the Brooklyn Bridge. To the left is One Police Plaza. And up ahead? Well, skateboarders. Doy.<\/p>\n

Bun and I went to the Staten Island Ferry – my first trip on the fabled boat.<\/p>\n

Bun contemplates the Bayonne skyline:<\/p>\n

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…and takes a look at Derek Jeter’s fishing boat:<\/p>\n

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Then it was off to pick up Zam, and whoosh<\/em>, away to one last stop at Times Square – easily the kids’ favorite place in Gotham:<\/p>\n

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They liked New York. A lot.<\/p>\n

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Especially Bun. “We have to come here again,” she said – like, fifty times.<\/p>\n

I’ll have to come up with some good excuses; I’m out of stepsons. But yes, I think we might just swing it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It smelled lovely in the hotel room on Sunday. Bun had brought her bouquet from the wedding: …which was a real work of art. But then it was off to a big day of chasing around. First: Brunch at my stepson’s new in-laws in Brooklyn, not far from the Brooklyn Museum…: …with its famous chorus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}