{"id":461,"date":"2011-01-15T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenbrammell.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2011-01-15T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T21:59:31","slug":"christmas-time-in-hollis-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2011\/01\/15\/christmas-time-in-hollis-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Time in Hollis Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authored by Raymond Whitney<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so I&#8217;m not from Queens. In fact, I&#8217;m not even from New York, in the traditional sense. I live upstate. Weird, I know. Sometimes I ask myself why. But I try to avoid that question. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway it&#8217;s the holiday season in New York and that only means one thing: basketball. More to the point, New York Knicks fans have already recieved the gift they&#8217;ve asking for for years &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; hope. The Knicks are on a seven game winning streak.. But there is, I suppose, one more gift to be asked from friends, family, strangers, really anyone in proximity. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Madison Square Garden is the best venue in the world. Granted I&#8217;m biased, but nothing matches the energy of the Garden. Oh how I have longed for the days when I could wear my apparell at the garden with pride. I remember when I was a kid, living in, you guessed in Queens (Forest Hills). My father and I would leave early, he&#8217;d set the home security alarm (Adt security online offer) and say something truly touching like, &#8220;you can never be too careful in this god forsaken town.&#8221; Then we&#8217;d run to our local bakery, he&#8217;d have coffee and I&#8217;d scarf down a black and white cookie. &#8220;Maybe Santa will give us a win,&#8221; he&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authored by Raymond Whitney Okay, so I&#8217;m not from Queens. In fact, I&#8217;m not even from New York, in the traditional sense. I live upstate. Weird, I know. Sometimes I ask myself why. But I try to avoid that question. Anyway it&#8217;s the holiday season in New York and that only means one thing: basketball. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2011\/01\/15\/christmas-time-in-hollis-queens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Time in Hollis Queens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-issues","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}