{"id":28812,"date":"2024-12-20T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/new-york-is-the-worst-place-in-the-world-my-taxi-driver-said-not-that-night-not-to-me-megan-nolan\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:26:30","slug":"new-york-is-the-worst-place-in-the-world-my-taxi-driver-said-not-that-night-not-to-me-megan-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/new-york-is-the-worst-place-in-the-world-my-taxi-driver-said-not-that-night-not-to-me-megan-nolan\/","title":{"rendered":"New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver said. Not that night, not to me | Megan Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at Manhattan, trying to work out how a person like me could exist in it. The snow settled on my lashes and I knew I was home<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winter night I moved to New York, I sat in the back of a cab, two bulging suitcases stuffed into the boot by the driver who rolled his eyes at my excess. When I told him that I was moving here, though, he lit up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday?\u201d he asked, \u201cYou\u2019re moving here today?\u201d I nodded, jittery and wild eyed. I was sick with nerves and the lunatic sensation of a thing I had dreamed of in vague cinematic terms for my whole life actually taking place. Now he was pleased, the taxi driver. Now he had something he needed to say.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Nolan is an Irish writer based in London<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/20\/new-york-worst-place-in-world-taxi-driver\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I looked at Manhattan, trying to work out how a person like me could exist in it. The snow settled on my lashes and I knew I was home In our end of year series, writers and public figures remember the place or time when they felt most at home The winter night I moved &#8230; <a title=\"New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver said. Not that night, not to me | Megan Nolan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/new-york-is-the-worst-place-in-the-world-my-taxi-driver-said-not-that-night-not-to-me-megan-nolan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York is the worst place in the world, my taxi driver said. Not that night, not to me | Megan Nolan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}