{"id":517,"date":"2010-08-30T22:35:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=517"},"modified":"2010-08-30T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:35:28","slug":"in_which_i_am_told_and_shown_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2010\/08\/in_which_i_am_told_and_shown_h\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am told and shown how to get to Carnegie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Abigail from IMG e mailed to say that there were &#8220;delightful little scooters&#8221; outside Carnegie Hall today, I knew I had to take a detour from my lunchtime eyebrow threading appointment and see it for myself. Sure enough, when I came up on 57th street and 8th avenue, there was a fleet of four scooters with Carnegie ads attached parked along the sidewalk. Naturally, I walked up to them and asked what the situation was. They told me they were going to Carnegie Hall (&#8220;right down the road!&#8221;) next, and that they had been to Wall Street, Union Square, and Columbus Circle that day.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some photos:<\/p>\n<p>Taking a breather. <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ScooterSquad1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ScooterSquad1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"339\" width=\"450\" \/>&#8220;Right down the road.&#8221;<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ScooterSquad2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ScooterSquad2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" \/>Making me eat their dust. Or whatever&#8217;s on New York City streets. <\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ScooterSquad3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ScooterSquad3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"339\" width=\"450\" \/>Into the night! <br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ScooterSquad4.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/ScooterSquad4.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"337\" width=\"450\" \/>The company Carnegie used is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scooter-media.com\/\">Scooter Media<\/a>, and it promises a &#8220;fleet of stylish new scooters, each one piloted by a very happy person.&#8221; (I talked to two of the drivers, and both <i>did<\/i> seem like fairly happy people, one slightly more so than the other. They were also all wearing &#8220;Practice, practice, practice&#8221; t shirts, and were happyish despite that.)&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div>Abigail reported that they were handing out 20% off coupons for select concerts and free backpacks outside Carnegie along with the scooter display, but I seem to have missed that.&nbsp; One wonders how this fits into a larger marketing campaign; can we expect to see delightful snowmobiles come December?<\/p>\n<p>In possibly less exciting news, I learned today that you get a 10% discount at any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katespaperie.com\/\">Kate&#8217;s Paperie<\/a> if you have a Museum of Modern Art or a Whitney Museum membership. My sister constantly mocks my disorganized wallet, but little does she know it&#8217;s all an elaborate ploy to have various membership cards fall onto counters just as I&#8217;m spending too much on hand-printed stationary. Even less germane to this blog post than the museum\/stationary discount, I also learned today that if you don&#8217;t drink the beet juice you bought last Wednesday, it will explode all over the place and you will look like that <i>True Blood Rolling Stone <\/i>cover but a lot less hot. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend Abigail from IMG e mailed to say that there were &#8220;delightful little scooters&#8221; outside Carnegie Hall today, I knew I had to take a detour from my lunchtime eyebrow threading appointment and see it for myself. Sure enough, when I came up on 57th street and 8th avenue, there was a fleet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}