{"id":5626,"date":"2016-08-10T20:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T00:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2020-02-10T19:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T23:52:42","slug":"trump-tower-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/08\/10\/trump-tower-climber.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump Tower Climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t going to post anything .NYC, since I&#8217;m getting ready to retire it to the wanky dustbowl of gratuitous TLDs. But before I do that, I wanted to share some \u00bd decent video I got of the Trump Tower climber today. If I had been at my secret perch within that Tower I might have gotten unique video angles. But then I might still be there now, hours later, getting fistfucked by the Secret Service. They might still remember me, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents like this make me wonder when the shoulder fire missiles and drone strikes will target this building. Sorry to say it but I have such ghastly thoughts when I enter Grand Central Terminal, the Port Authority, and even the relatively insignificant Time-Warner Center. When will the terrorists strike these soft targets?<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Tower climber is no Philippe Petit but there were some moments of accidental balletic grace in his suction cupped crawl.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WU0IT9rS9FQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wasn&#8217;t going to post anything .NYC, since I&#8217;m getting ready to retire it to the wanky dustbowl of gratuitous TLDs. But before I do that, I wanted to share some \u00bd decent video I got of the Trump Tower climber today. If I had been at my secret perch within that Tower I might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-5626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","category-video","tag-donald-trump","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1sK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24479,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/24479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}