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Another subway-spectrum-inspired blog: last week I got stuck in central Brooklyn at 2am, having just barely missed the Q train at Beverly Road, the doors shut as I was skipping down the stairs. As it goes when it’s in the middle of the night I was trying to find ways to entertain myself (even though I had a book to read). I started wandering the platform and noticed these tiny chips of paint, which show the color-archaeology of the platform, and the numerous coatings the station has gone through over probably many decades.<\/p>\n
I would like to see the station again in any of those sea blues.<\/p>\n
Another subway-spectrum-inspired blog: last week I got stuck in central Brooklyn at 2am, having just barely missed the Q train at Beverly Road, the doors shut as I was skipping down the stairs. As it goes when it’s in the middle of the night I was trying to find ways to entertain myself (even though […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[938],"series":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-stuffs","tag-subway"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/subway-paint_IMG_6905.jpg?fit=750%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1IS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/subway-paint_IMG_6905.jpg?ssl=1\" "\\"subway-paint_IMG_6905\\"")
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