{"id":395,"date":"2011-10-14T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2012-01-20T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:09:15","slug":"gloom-with-a-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/gloom-with-a-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Gloom With a View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy days and Thursdays don't always get me down. After meeting a manufacturer's rep to review a recently completed roof replacement project at a 14-story building on West End Avenue yesterday morning, I paused to appreciate the gloomy allure around me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-caption wp-image-400\" title=\"UWS rainy day LF\" src=\"https:\/\/randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2.jpg\" alt=\"UWS rainy day LF\" width=\"485\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2-485x364.jpg 485w, https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/UWS-rainy-day-LF2-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The view offers the characteristic contrast of yesterday's and today's New York: Across the street, a stately limestone and terra cotta decorated building with a mansard roof, and in the distance, new gleaming brash towers along Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>I stood for just a minute after taking the photo from the fire escape. A dated sign on the railing warned \"Any one placing any incumbrance on this balcony will be fined ten dollars.\" I didn't want to risk it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy days and Thursdays don't always get me down. After meeting a manufacturer's rep to review a recently completed roof replacement project at a 14-story building on West End Avenue yesterday morning, I paused to appreciate the gloomy allure around...<\/p>\n <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/gloom-with-a-view\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read More\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,21],"tags":[24,23],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-categories","category-upper-west-side","category-views","tag-view","tag-west-end-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m.randpc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}