{"id":199,"date":"2003-10-27T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T00:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:41:20","slug":"shaolin-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/27\/shaolin-er\/","title":{"rendered":"shaolin-er"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a former (and therefore always – it’s where I was born) Staten Islander, this story<\/a> really scares and moves me. I can’t believe it’s evaded me for 10 days, and my heart goes out to all of the families the tragedy touched.
\nDOT Announced Ferry Safety Improvements,<\/a> linked from the SI Ferry site,<\/a> which states, "The New York City Department of Transportation extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims involved in the tragic Staten Island Ferry accident on October 15, 2003"
\nAnd here come the lawsuits…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a former (and therefore always – it’s where I was born) Staten Islander, this story really scares and moves me. I can’t believe it’s evaded me for 10 days, and my heart goes out to all of the families the tragedy touched. DOT Announced Ferry Safety Improvements, linked from the SI Ferry site, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-3d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":354,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/04\/did-you-know-golan-levin-is-from-staten-island\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":0},"title":"did you know golan levin is from staten island?","author":"nathaniel","date":"04 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Former Staten Islander and Turbulence.org grantee makes good at The Whitney Biennial and the Vasulka's Kitchen: Cyber artist [Golan] Levin goes live at Kitchen And don't forget that Franci Cronje's first solo show, at the Premises Gallery (powered by The Trinity Session at the Civic, in Jozi), goes live this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "art and tech"","block_context":{"text":"art and tech","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art-and-tech\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1572,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/ingrid-michaelson\/","url_meta":{"origin":199,"position":1},"title":"ingrid michaelson","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 January 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I rarely look up a song I've heard on television. 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