{"id":149,"date":"2017-02-25T01:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T01:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/?p=149"},"modified":"2017-02-21T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T08:48:04","slug":"come-walk-with-me-the-grand-central-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/travel\/come-walk-with-me-the-grand-central-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Walk With Me &#8211; The Grand Central, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? Am I a tourist? Am I a traveler? Am I an entrepreneur looking out for business opportunities? Who am I, and why do I just move around and am willing to walk anywhere in this world? I am sure, I am a traveler and I walk because I want to experience this world and I wish to share my experiences with others, and encourage them to step out as well, and know this world better.<\/p>\n<p>One of my walks took me to the Grand Central Terminal in New York. It took me time to come to terms with walking around in a living monument. Yes, I would love to call it a living monument as also inscribed on the gateway to this magnificent piece of architecture.<\/p>\n<p>My first expression after recovering from one of the most pleasant shocks of my life was, &#8220;What is this?&#8221; and that is what got me working on this. I walked around aimlessly for a couple of hours within the terminal and trying to get a hang of how this terminal lives, how it breathes and how it eats, sleeps, and, of course, allows people to travel from point A to point B. The whole experience was amazing. Having done that, I decided to comeback with my cameras and walk once more. Next day, I was back. Few hours and a few hundred photographs as raw stock later, I could tell myself what the Grand Central is.<\/p>\n<p>I had to tell my story and I had to pick and choose photographs that defined the story, and complemented it or supplemented it as I narrated the same. A few days later, I got around to writing my experiences about a liberal mingling of a utility with art, food, culture and shopping. So, <a title=\"Grand Central Terminal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/travel\/blog\/tours\/few-hours-at-grand-central-terminal-new-york\" target=\"_blank\">here is my story on Grand Central Terminal. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? Am I a tourist? Am I a traveler? Am I an entrepreneur looking out for business opportunities? Who am I, and why do I just move around and am willing to walk anywhere in this world? I am sure, I am a traveler and I walk because I want to experience this world and I wish to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[53,52,3,54],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-gct","tag-grand-central-terminal","tag-mapsofworld","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofworld.com\/founders-desk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}