{"id":123,"date":"2008-02-01T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/frozen-grand-central\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:18","slug":"frozen-grand-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/frozen-grand-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Grand Central abuzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" alt=\"frozen-grand-central.jpg\" id=\"image122\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/frozen-grand-central.jpg\" \/>207 &#8220;agents&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improveverywhere.com\/\">Improve Everywhere<\/a> recently stopped in their tracks at Grand Central Station, pulling off an afternoon stunt for five minutes. The viral video, posted today on YouTube, is on fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed down just a bit as commuters and tourists alike stopped to notice what was happening around them,&#8221; notes their press release.<\/p>\n<p>Agents chose five-minute kissing, &#8220;bunny ears&#8221; photographing, paper dropping, shoe tying, and map looking.<\/p>\n<p>Of the stunt, one police officer said, &#8220;That is the craziest shit I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life, and I&#8217;m a cop!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Frozen Grand Central\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jwMj3PJDxuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Past flash mobs have included <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=bXB_DcuMv_E\">no pants 2k8<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=jdeBp8J0rqs\">no shirts at Abercombie and Fitch<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=29NLOhBttxA\">slo-mo at Home Depot<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=-LKbCGV8aH4\">cell phone symphony<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2008\/02\/01\/video_of_the_da_159.php\">Gothamist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5002790\/when-grand-central-stood-still\">Gawker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpluv.com\/www\/feeditem\/5331\/\">CPluv<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>207 &#8220;agents&#8221; of Improve Everywhere recently stopped in their tracks at Grand Central Station, pulling off an afternoon stunt for five minutes. The viral video, posted today on YouTube, is on fire. &#8220;Over 500,000 people rush through Grand Central every day, but today, things slowed down just a bit as commuters and tourists alike stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}