{"id":1436,"date":"2011-11-28T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:24:06","slug":"window-gazing-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/window-gazing-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Window Gazing, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1437\" title=\"MermaidforBlog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MermaidforBlog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/>She isn\u2019t a mermaid, but she\u2019s surrounded by enormous, silent fish made of blue and green glass, and her space behind the window could as easily be filled with ocean as with air.\u00a0 I like how the window displays of Bergdorf Goodman are simply not possible.\u00a0 How can a zebra be constructed of paper, or a polar bear consist of silk fringes?\u00a0 How can a powerful, confident girl fly in the sea?<\/p>\n<p>I love that otherworldly views are given to us unexpectedly, without explanation.\u00a0 They do not coyly advertise particular goods.\u00a0 Someone spent painstaking hours constructing monkeys, spider webs, ostriches, peacocks and rays and trusted that we would marvel.<\/p>\n<p>We do.\u00a0 We gape outside on the gray sidewalk, in real life, taking turns politely with other tourists so they can have a chance to look, to have their photos snapped before the scenes.\u00a0 We\u2019re transported by the details and whimsy.\u00a0 We\u2019re reminded we have imaginations, too.\u00a0 We never leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She isn\u2019t a mermaid, but she\u2019s surrounded by enormous, silent fish made of blue and green glass, and her space behind the window could as easily be filled with ocean as with air.\u00a0 I like how the window displays of Bergdorf Goodman are simply not possible.\u00a0 How can a zebra be constructed of paper, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-ha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}