{"id":3894,"date":"2008-12-18T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/12\/18\/transit-furniture-sign-o-the-times\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:44:04","slug":"transit-furniture-sign-o-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/12\/18\/transit-furniture-sign-o-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Furniture Sign O&#8217; The Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/largebenchseat.JPG\" title=\"largebenchseat.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2008\/12\/largebenchseat.JPG\" alt=\"largebenchseat.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &#8212; The <a href=\"http:\/\/obesity1.tempdomainname.com\/subs\/fastfacts\/obesity_US.shtml\">American obesity epidemic<\/a> always seems most visible in my native Midwest &#8212; but evidence of the national widening can be found in this New York City subway bench, spotted this week at the Spring Street <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/nyct\/service\/cline.htm\">C<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mta.info\/nyct\/service\/eline.htm\">E<\/a> station in lower Manhattan. We have here a standard wooden MTA platform-level waiting bench&#8230;only with one of the between-person dividers removed. And finished over. To accommodate the New American.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Liz Clayton is a former Toronto resident who now lives in New York City and occasionally posts\u00a0 dispatches for Spacing. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The American obesity epidemic always seems most visible in my native Midwest &#8212; but evidence of the national widening can be found in this New York City subway bench, spotted this week at the Spring Street C E station in lower Manhattan. 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