{"id":1821,"date":"2011-09-10T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T15:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2011-09-10T08:03:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T15:03:22","slug":"sleepless-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/sleepless-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepless in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something particularly special about the smell of New York when the weather is warm. The garbage left out on the street leaves a patina that some try to wash away with a hose but to little effect. Instead the smell is diminished and altered slightly, but enough lingers to lodge in your sense memory.<br \/>\nOr at least it did in mine.<br \/>\nAdd to that the smell of fresh fruit in the corner market bins and the general smells of morning (and fish if you&#8217;re lucky enough to be on th Lower East side) and you have a pantheon of smells unlike anything anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I had this morning.<br \/>\nPerhaps it was unwise to schedule my first major book signing event on the day before the ten year anniversary of the 9\/11attacks. Perhaps not. Either way, I didn&#8217;t sleep much. Why? Two things. First, my sister found on Craig&#8217;s List an apartment with a room you could  rent. Awesome, right? And really reasonable. And downtown, amidst the police protecting all of us.<br \/>\nLots and lots of police.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105705.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105705.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-105705.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSecond, knowing my bus would have to leave through the tunnel tomorrow. On 9\/11 I scrupulously avoided all bridges and tunnels (rather sanely, I thought) and now, new terrorist threats announced, here I am, about to do the stupid&#8230;or at least the cautiosly tense.<br \/>\nRegardless, there wasn&#8217;t much sleep.<br \/>\nBut now in the drift morning light, I sit at La Pain Quotidien<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-110209.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-110209.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-110209.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwith a fabulously snarky New York waiter, about to eat gluten-free oatmeal and drink a pot of Earl Grey&#8211;I already had awesome coffee on the walk up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105751.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-105751.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy coffee place.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/20110910-105942.jpg\" alt=\"20110910-105942.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd then? Then I go to the SoHo Gallery of Digital Art, meet up with Ehren Ziegler of <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/chopbard.com\">ChopBard<\/a>ChopBard podcast and set up for our day of bookish fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something particularly special about the smell of New York when the weather is warm. The garbage left out on the street leaves a patina that some try to wash away with a hose but to little effect. 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