{"id":12279,"date":"2022-07-13T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T06:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12279"},"modified":"2022-07-13T05:15:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T10:15:45","slug":"12279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=12279","title":{"rendered":"our 36-hour nyc jaunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/52213299256\/\" title=\"NYC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52213299256_c89877987b_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"NYC\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>First thing Friday morning, Rudi and I boarded a bus to New York City to catch a show. We rode Citi Bikes (those New York cyclists are a lawless bunch, but their traffic lights force them to be) to Chinatown, where we were staying, ate a delicious lupper of vegetarian dim sum in a covered streetery, checked out a bookstore, and took a nap in the afternoon. In the evening, we biked up to the theater to take in the penultimate performance of <em>Macbeth<\/em>, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga (the girl in the flower dress from <em>Agents of SHIELD<\/em>). Before returning to the hotel, we stopped in Little Italy, in search of a cup of coffee for Rudi and found a patisserie with delicious cannoli, which we took back to our 11th-floor view of lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/52213301681\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Chinatown Mural\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52213301681_107338b22f_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Chinatown Mural\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The next morning, Rudi got up and caught a flight to Denver, and I bummed around the city for a while longer before catching the bus back to D.C. I returned to Little Italy to a shop where I&#8217;d seen Italian ice advertised for a taste of home. I knit for a while in the park across the street from the hotel after checking out. I biked over to one of the tea shops we like and stopped at a street fair en route.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/52212294187\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Italian Ice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52212294187_24b0fd91f9_w.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Italian Ice\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was a good trip, and I&#8217;m already looking forward to returning in August when we catch two Tony-winning musicals, <em>The Strange Loop<\/em> and <em>Paradise Square<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thing Friday morning, Rudi and I boarded a bus to New York City to catch a show. 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