{"id":148,"date":"2009-05-08T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=148"},"modified":"2009-05-08T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:37:17","slug":"i-have-become-one-of-thementry-for-august-1-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"I have become one of them&#8230;&#8230;.Entry for August 1, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will never forget the first day I started working in New York. I was petrified. When I went for my interview, I stood outside the building across the street and looked up at the window. Sure enough, there was my future boss looking at a transparency in the light of the window. I almost didn&#8217;t even go up there. I could get a job in New Jersey, I thought. New York is the king of large format graphics. These guys are gonna eat me up. I don&#8217;t know shit. This city is too crazy loud and dirty. Fear has been my closest friend my whole life. I compare it to going into the ocean to swim. BIG waves. COLD mysterious water. Jump in&#8230;&#8230;or watch from the distance. It wasn&#8217;t easy. But I have worked my way ever so slowly to respect. They trust me now&#8230;most times with their biggest most complicated jobs. And now I know New York. The shortcuts, the best pizza, &#8230;.I know the street muscians, the homeless, the roughnecks, the tempo, I know the constant sound of sirens wailing, of firetrucks caught in traffic, cops on horses, blazing neon light shows, I have learned the complex subways, I have found treasures, gotten ripped off, was interviewd on the street for channel 4 news, have seen movies being made, undercover drug busts, and I got hit by an impatient taxi car. Once scared to walk through the endless mobs of people on the sidwalks&#8230;..I burst through them now. I know when the lights are gonna change green. I know how to curse&#8230;.how to be confident&#8230;swagger through the concrete mazes like I own it. Get outta my way! Get off the phone! Pay a fuckin tention! No, I don&#8217;t have any change! Get a damn job! Come on&#8230;.jump in! The water is freezing cold and the waves are monsters. Slowly&#8230;..I have become&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;one of them.<a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/newyorkfunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/newyorkfunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"newyorkfunk\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will never forget the first day I started working in New York. I was petrified. When I went for my interview, I stood outside the building across the street and looked up at the window. Sure enough, there was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}