{"id":105,"date":"2015-01-31T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=105"},"modified":"2015-01-31T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T23:04:19","slug":"north-brother-island-tourist-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"North Brother Island tourist trap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there is some talk of <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2014\/10\/16\/photos_north_brother_island.php#photo-1\">opening up North Brother Island for public tours<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ambivalent, as on the one side I think it would be nice to allow the public (including myself) to see some old New York history. On the other hand I am not sure there would be any way to prevent these historical sites from being turned into crass tourist destinations (Starbucks?).<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime some pictures from the gothamist site linked above:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 3px\" src=\"http:\/\/galleries.gothamistllc.com\/asset\/543ef00f6883301d63a7e664\/web_gallery\/NorthBrotherIslandTour-TodSeelie-7.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 3px\" alt=\"2014_10_nbitour.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/assets_c\/2014\/10\/2014_10_nbitour-thumb-900x579-863951.jpg\" width=\"581\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 3px\" alt=\"2014_10_islands.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/assets_c\/2014\/10\/2014_10_islands-thumb-900x698-863952.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"459\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Apparently, there is some talk of opening up North Brother Island for public tours. &#160; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m ambivalent, as on the one side I think it would be nice to allow the public (including myself) to see some old New York history. On the other hand I am not sure there would be any way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reisun.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}