{"id":452,"date":"2023-07-22T04:13:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2023-07-22T04:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T04:13:15","slug":"baseball-trip-day-three-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Baseball trip day three, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We ended the day with more Sinatra: \u201cStart spreading the news\u2026\u201d, but I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The day began with climbing on the \u201c4\u201d subway train and heading to the 9\/11 Memorial. I wasn\u2019t quite dressed for the weather; I arrived at the memorial about 15 minutes before opening time and got drenched in a downpour. In a note of irony (or something), I bought an umbrella in the museum gift shop and saw no more rain all day. I guess I\u2019m prepared for future rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memorial was absolutely splendid. I found myself near tears, and at least at one point thinking I was going to throw up. The mass destruction, misery, and sorrow described were overwhelming. Sadly no photography was allowed of the bulk of the exhibits, so you\u2019ll need to take my word for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The palate cleanser was across the street, in the whitest shopping mall I\u2019ve ever seen. I caught some late breakfast there, then took a walk down the hill to Battery Park (Dana and Graham will recognize this. This park used to contain a part of the \u201cring of fire\u201d meant to protect the mouth of the Hudson River. No emplacements to run around on though).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan was to catch a view of the Statue of Liberty there; I did, but discovered the telephoto lens on my phone wasn\u2019t nearly good enough. So, I got the senior price on the boat ride out to the statue and to Ellis island and went for a short cruise. The statue was great, and the views of Manhattan and of the Brooklyn Bridge were nice too. Anyone want to buy a bridge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran out of time and could not spend as long on Ellis Island as I wanted. I was really struck by how much a sacrifice immigrants made as they came to America, with no guarantee that they could stay. I hope we value our citizenship just as much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to the hotel on the #5 subway, just in time to head to Yankee Stadium. We didn\u2019t get there quite in time to get tonight\u2019s bobble head, but saw a really good game; Yankees won (prompting the Sinatra song), but the Royals had the tying run on third base at the end. Close, exciting game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No game tomorrow, but the bus takes us to Cooperstown and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Really excited about that\u2026more then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, it was a bit damp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The last steel removed from the twin towers wreckage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I wasn\u2019t kidding when I said this place was white. You\u2019d almost have thought it had an ice rink in the bottom. Two story Apple Store on your left\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll need to edit out some people. Lady Liberty really is beautiful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Incredible to think how many immigrants came through this space, speaking so many different languages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Since it\u2019s theoretically a baseball trip, I figured I should show you a baseball picture. Guess in the comments which cap had the ball underneath and which color subway train won the race (red, green, or blue). Graham is not eligible, as he always knows the answers. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We ended the day with more Sinatra: \u201cStart spreading the news\u2026\u201d, but I\u2019m getting ahead of myself. The day began with climbing on the \u201c4\u201d subway train and heading to the 9\/11 Memorial. I wasn\u2019t quite dressed for the weather; I arrived at the memorial about 15 minutes before opening time and got drenched in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2luhns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}