{"id":10202,"date":"2016-06-08T12:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10202"},"modified":"2016-06-08T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T17:18:46","slug":"the-famous-myopic-view-of-the-world-from-the-pov-of-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-famous-myopic-view-of-the-world-from-the-pov-of-new-yorkers\/","title":{"rendered":"The (famous &#038; myopic) view of the world from the POV of New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10203\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10203\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-famous-myopic-view-of-the-world-from-the-pov-of-new-yorkers\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1-902x1024.jpg\" alt=\"NYC center of the universe\" width=\"640\" height=\"727\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1-198x225.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-york-center-of-the-universe-new-yorker-cover-steinberg1.jpg 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Yorker cover NYC center of the universe, by Saul Steinberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>Yesterday somebody mentioned what life looks like to New Yorkers and I realized &#8230; so much time has passed since Saul Steinberg drew the famous New York cover showing what the world looks like for New Yorkers \u2013 with Jersey a slender line across the Hudson with Japan and China just blips in the far distance &#8230; that my 21 year old son may have not ever seen it. So I looked around, found the cover easily on the internet and sure enough, Ari had never seen it before. It&#8217;s a doozy, though, isn&#8217;t it? <\/p>\n<p>The official name of the drawing is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue\">&#8220;View of the World from Ninth Avenue&#8221;<\/a>. It was the 29 March 1976 cover of The New Yorker magazine. It is an image I often mention when trying to explain to people how myopic the view of New Yorkers actually is. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday somebody mentioned what life looks like to New Yorkers and I realized &#8230; so much time has passed since Saul Steinberg drew the famous New York cover showing what the world looks like for New Yorkers \u2013 with Jersey a slender line across the Hudson with Japan and China just blips in the far &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-famous-myopic-view-of-the-world-from-the-pov-of-new-yorkers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The (famous &#038; myopic) view of the world from the POV of New Yorkers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,13,31,4],"tags":[2422,2420,2419,2423,2421],"class_list":["post-10202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-art-culture","category-best-stuff","category-digital-life","tag-manhattan","tag-myopic","tag-new-yorker","tag-nyc","tag-view"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10210,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10202\/revisions\/10210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}