{"id":23949,"date":"2013-01-25T05:55:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T10:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23949"},"modified":"2013-02-16T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T19:37:43","slug":"theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like this in Hoboken&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a boss years ago who loved to tell a joke to all the sassy new young secretaries that he liked to cut down to size.\u00a0 I paraphrase, but you\u2019ll get the drift:\u00a0 A man takes his first trip out to Las Vegas, it\u2019s his first trip anywhere out of his hometown.\u00a0 It\u2019s also his first flight.\u00a0 he\u2019s got a window seat, a pretty flight attendant is serving his lunch and drinks, \u201c<em>There\u2019s sure nothing like this in Hoboken<\/em>,\u201d he thinks. He gets into Las Vegas and asks the cabby to take a drive down the strip and take him to a casino.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing like this in Hoboken.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he says.\u00a0 He gambles all night, he wins lots of money, he\u2019s got girls hanging all over him.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201cThere\u2019s sure nothing like this in Hoboken.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0He choses the best looking girl, they go drinking and dancing and end up at his hotel room.\u00a0 She\u2019s beautiful.\u00a0\u00a0<em>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing like this in Hoboken,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he says. The entire trip has been a surprise and delight, so many new experiences.\u00a0 He can hardly wait for what\u2019s to come.\u00a0 She undresses.\u00a0 The lights go out.\u00a0<em>\u201cAh,\u201d he says, \u201cjust like Hoboken.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23423\">Apologies To The Divine Feminine (from a warrior in transition)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=23875\">The New Macho: This is the Mature Masculine \u2013 a re-definition of masculinity for the 21st century<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like this in Hoboken&#8221;&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=&#8220;There&#8217;s%20nothing%20like%20this%20in%20Hoboken&#8221;&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/theres-nothing-like-this-in-hoboken\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a boss years ago who loved to tell a joke to all the sassy new young secretaries that he liked to cut down to size.\u00a0 I paraphrase, but you\u2019ll get the drift:\u00a0 A man takes his first trip out to Las Vegas, it\u2019s his first trip anywhere out of his hometown.\u00a0 It\u2019s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23949"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24873,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23949\/revisions\/24873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}