{"id":6909,"date":"2011-11-27T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2011-11-27T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T22:01:11","slug":"subwayland-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2011\/11\/27\/subwayland-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Subwayland (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-6909\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Subwayland-Adventures-World-Beneath-York\/dp\/0312324340%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0312324340\">Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><a id=\"contributorNameTriggerB001KDARF4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Randy-Kennedy\/e\/B001KDARF4\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Randy Kennedy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 240 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> St. Martin&#8217;s Griffin (February 19, 2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0312324340<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0312324346<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Walking around Distant Lands one day, I saw this book and wanted to read it &#8211; I have a great interest in subways after living in Chicago for 17 years and using the subway almost daily.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Kennedy wrote the subway column\u00a0 for the New York Times, &#8220;Tunnel Vision,&#8221; and this book is a collection of some of the columns. It&#8217;s a fascinating look at the NYC subway from historical, political, social and cultural perspectives.\u00a0 There are a lot of facts and dates, but even more interesting stories, like the guy who built a conductor&#8217;s cab in his bedroom from discarded subway train parts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great read, almost like a Reader&#8217;s Digest collection &#8211; highly recommended if you&#8217;re interested in subways.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-6909\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 6909);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-6909\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-6909\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York Author: Randy Kennedy Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: St. Martin&#8217;s Griffin (February 19, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312324340 ISBN-13: 978-0312324346 Walking around Distant Lands one day, I saw this book and wanted to read it &#8211; I have a great interest in subways after living in Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,990,992,991,994,993],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-chicago","tag-new-york-city-subway","tag-randy-kennedy","tag-rapid-transit","tag-subway","tag-the-new-york-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1Nr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}