{"id":230,"date":"2008-06-04T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2008-06-04T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T00:49:13","slug":"new-york-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/new-york-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"New York - Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Museum of Natural History is full of mystery and wonder.  Or at least, big-ass turtles and dinosaurs!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4177\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4177.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Fern tickling the turtle\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4190\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4190.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Craig and triceratops\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool things we found in the museum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4201\">Boobies<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4199\">(really)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4218\">Pieces<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4244\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4192\">home<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4210\">crazy lady<\/a>, who thought she was a bird<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4253\">Walrus<\/a> (note: no bukkit)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4261\">Spitzer Hall of Human Origins<\/a>.  (Those that gave the hall also gave the world <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-06\/CIMG2993\">ex-Gov. Spitzer<\/a>, who, according to the news, knows a thing or two about where humans come from)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were more shiny rocks than you could shake a stick at.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4272\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: top;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4272.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Spectacular.\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4270\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4270.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Missing link, with short person for height comparison\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4265\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4265.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Azurite and malachite\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4159\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4159.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Mars Rover\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A must-do while in New York is a Yankees game.  This is the final year for the famous Yankee Stadium, workplace of George Costanza, with its famous <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4369\">bat-shaped-chimney<\/a>.  They're building a new stadium in a park across the street, and then demolishing the old one to replace the park!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4320\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4320.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee Stadium\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4355\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4355.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee glove\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4359\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4359.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee Stadium\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4353\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; vertical-align: bottom;\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/albums\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4353.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Broken bat!\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like baseball, because it's a little like Twenty20 cricket.  Except it's <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4364\">a lot colder<\/a>. Dinner at baseball is <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4326\">hot dog and fries<\/a> (it's the rules), which requires up to 20 minutes of hard core queuing. <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.yankees.mlb.com\/news\/wrap.jsp?ymd=20080407&amp;content_id=2502439&amp;vkey=wrapup2005&amp;fext=.jsp&amp;team=home&amp;c_id=nyy\">The Yankees won 6-1<\/a> and we headed back home by the subway.<\/p>\n<p>In today's gallery, we bring you lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/CIMG3127\">pictures of shiny things<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.dubculture.co.nz\/2008-04-07\/IMG_4351\">action baseball shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Museum of Natural History is full of mystery and wonder. Or at least, big-ass turtles and dinosaurs! Cool things we found in the museum: Boobies (really) Pieces of home A crazy lady, who thought she was a bird Walrus (note: no bukkit) The Spitzer Hall of Human Origins. (Those that gave the hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}