{"id":2722,"date":"2005-03-27T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2010-07-12T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T18:14:44","slug":"the-private-mood-of-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"The private mood of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly grey day here, with flags whipping in the wind, and the sidewalks quiet and sparsely populated.  I love Manhattan on a Sunday morning.  It&#8217;s like a different city altogether.  Wrapped in on itself, in a private mood, people going about their lives, quietly, sensibly, doing nice Sunday things.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes on Sunday mornings, I wake up early, take the bus into town, just so I can meander through the empty streets, the vendors setting out the flowers, or the fruit, random people jogging by, most storefronts locked up behind the grilles.  I love the quiet.  Meandering empty yellow cabs driving up 8th Avenue.  In a weird way, it&#8217;s peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>Went to Easter Mass at my church on 36th Street.  I love it there.  It&#8217;s one of those old cavernous urban Catholic churches squeezed in between storefronts.  You walk through the wooden front doors and suddenly find yourself in a vast echoing space, you can&#8217;t believe how large it is, judging from how cramped it appears from outside.  I&#8217;ve been going to St. Mary&#8217;s for about a year now, and I really like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a chilly grey day here, with flags whipping in the wind, and the sidewalks quiet and sparsely populated. I love Manhattan on a Sunday morning. It&#8217;s like a different city altogether. Wrapped in on itself, in a private mood, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}