{"id":6815,"date":"2007-07-19T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T10:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6815"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:28:07","slug":"steam-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6815","title":{"rendered":"Steam Pipe Explosion By Grand Central"},"content":{"rendered":"

Horrible<\/a>. God. In one moment, it’s like 6 years have not passed. You never forget. It’s muscle memory. I was 2 blocks away, walking west on 41st – towards my bus home – when I felt the ground rumble – this horrible sensation – truly sickening, a lurch – and suddenly there was an explosion. I didn’t see it – but I felt it in my eardrums – and I looked east and saw towers of black smoke pouring up from the street. And then I was running, as fast as I could- west – away from the smoke. Everyone was running. I’ve seen the pictures now – of the flipped cars and shit – and am just grateful I was 2 blocks away, and not 1 block. It was horrible. by the time I got home, rattled and shaken up – I hung out at the deli across the street watching the news with a crowd of neighbors, a couple of whom had stories like mine- and at that point nobody had died. It said only 12 people injured – and having seen that blast – I was amazed that nobody died. It looked so apocalyptic. Now I read that one person has died. Bah. It’s awful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Horrible. God. In one moment, it’s like 6 years have not passed. You never forget. It’s muscle memory. I was 2 blocks away, walking west on 41st – towards my bus home – when I felt the ground rumble – … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815"}],"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=6815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22203,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6815\/revisions\/22203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}