{"id":27,"date":"2008-11-23T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-11-23T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T01:39:19","slug":"november-5-2008-2-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/november-5-2008-2-am\/","title":{"rendered":"November 5, 2008, 2 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union Square is always full of activity, but the park was packed at 2 AM election night when all of these were taken.   From the several blocks away where I live, I heard the madness in the park and had to go check out the scene.  In addition to the crowd cheering, every car on the road was honking away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"21\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"25a\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/25a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30\" title=\"127\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/127.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31\" title=\"34\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/34.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32\" title=\"27\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33\" title=\"32\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right around two in the morning the daily post came around and was handing out the first newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34\" title=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35\" title=\"107\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/107.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36\" title=\"22\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ive definitely  been to outdoor festivals where the crowd was not cheering as loudly as it was this night, and never would I have imagined that a Politician in America could inspire crowd surfing.  If there was some plywood hanging around, there could have been some real fun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37\" title=\"8\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44\" title=\"242\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/242.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"129\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/129.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" title=\"12\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The high five was in full effect this evening.  This last photo is probably my favorite from the night, two strangers going up high.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39\" title=\"31\" src=\"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/31.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Square is always full of activity, but the park was packed at 2 AM election night when all of these were taken. From the several blocks away where I live, I heard the madness in the park and had to go check out the scene. In addition to the crowd cheering, every car on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,6,7,5],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-leica","tag-nyc","tag-obama","tag-union-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daveraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}