{"id":35,"date":"2006-06-21T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/06\/21\/new-york-the-politest-city-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2006-06-21T09:16:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T09:16:41","slug":"new-york-the-politest-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/21\/new-york-the-politest-city-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"New York: the Politest City in the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off topic, but as a proud New Yorker, I can&#8217;t resist. Over on Feministe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/20\/in-your-face-minneapolis\/\">zuzu posted a link to an article about New Yorkers, and how when it comes to genuine helpfulness, NY is the best city in the world.<\/a>.<br \/>\nBasically, Readers Digest did a series of experiments, where they actually observed people in different cities in the world. NYers were rude, but far and away the most helpful city-dwellers.<br \/>\nI particularly love one thing zuzu included, because it perfectly captures the spirit of NY to me. A friend of her described New Yorkers like so:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nf you fall down on the sidewalk, they&#8217;ll help you up. They&#8217;ll laugh at you, and tell you you&#8217;re a fool, but they&#8217;ll help you up.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s my city all right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off topic, but as a proud New Yorker, I can&#8217;t resist. Over on Feministe, zuzu posted a link to an article about New Yorkers, and how when it comes to genuine helpfulness, NY is the best city in the world.. Basically, Readers Digest did a series of experiments, where they actually observed people in different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}