{"id":50,"date":"2006-02-12T01:06:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-02-12T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T05:06:13","slug":"new-yorker-discovers-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker discovers America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(OUTSIDE NEW YORK) &#8211; <img align=\"right\" alt=\"New Yorkers\" id=\"image49\" title=\"New Yorkers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/newyorkers.thumbnail.jpg\" \/>Vinnie Columbino accidentally boarded the wrong transit vehicle Friday night and ended up outside of New York City, discovering a whole new world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was so worried at first, but after I realised what I&#8217;d found, I couldn&#8217;t wait to get back to tell my brother Eddie,&#8221; said an ecstatic Columbino. &#8220;I was so dang dru..tired, that I got on a frickin&#8217; Greyhound bus. I know!\u00c2\u00a0 Only losers ride the bus, but there I was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as Columbino realised what was happening, he tried to get the bus to turn around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kinda woke up and looked out the window and realised I wasn&#8217;t in Queens. I didn&#8217;t know where the hell I was. All I saw were parks everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 At least I think they were parks.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never seen such big parks.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean these things never ended.\u00c2\u00a0 They were at least 30 times the size of Central Park, with these big monster trucks parked in them every so often.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbino got off the bus at the next stop in the city of Bedford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean you could hardly call it a city.\u00c2\u00a0 It looked like somebody took a slice of Brooklyn and plopped it down int he middle of nowhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbino calls the area &#8216;America,&#8217; and reports that the people there live much like we do, driving cars, watching television, and eating in restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s so much less crowded there.\u00c2\u00a0 The natives speak a different language though.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried communicating but they couldn&#8217;t understand freakin&#8217; English, man.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to use sign language to figure out how to get back to the city. It&#8217;s like they couldn&#8217;t understand a thing I said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbino plans to make preparations for a second voyage to &#8216;America&#8217;. He also hopes to develop trade relations and try to introduce some culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have\u00c2\u00a0 no idea what a Canolli is.\u00c2\u00a0 Or a Reuben.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel a responsibility to civilise them.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knows how many more of them there are outside the known world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbino&#8217;s brother will accompany him, hoping to prove his theory that some places seen on TV shows may in fact be based on secret knowledge places in &#8216;America.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(OUTSIDE NEW YORK) &#8211; Vinnie Columbino accidentally boarded the wrong transit vehicle Friday night and ended up outside of New York City, discovering a whole new world. &#8220;I was so worried at first, but after I realised what I&#8217;d found, I couldn&#8217;t wait to get back to tell my brother Eddie,&#8221; said an ecstatic Columbino. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.subbrilliant.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}