{"id":165397,"date":"2021-01-24T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=165397"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T17:34:40","slug":"photo-of-the-day-the-green-green-grass-of-8th-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=165397","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Day: The green green grass of 8th Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n8th Avenue used to be my jam. Before the city closed down and I stopped going in. I have only been in the city 3 or 4 times since the pandemic started, and each time I was going to stay with my friend Allison, who lives in the West Village. I miss wandering around the city so much<\/i>. I ACHE for my city. 8th Avenue is not particularly pretty but you can see all kinds of interesting things on its crowded sidewalks. Because Port Authority is on 8th Avenue, I was always in and around 8th Avenue for my commutes (when I used to take the bus home, that is). I took a lot of good pictures on 8th Avenue. I started keeping my eyes peeled for the random, the incongruous, the beauty next to the grime. Or … the beauty OF grime. And one day, I saw a bunch of bright emerald turf sitting on the pavement. And there was something so strangely hopeful and beautiful about it. New Yorkers. Yearning for a glimpse of green. Where the sidewalk ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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