I have not been tagged by anyone however, I noticed that many people are writing similar blogs. So, here are 7 facts you never knew about me:<\/p>\n
1. I attended a NYC Junior High school which was secured by armed guards at the main entrance. It was a three story school and all other entrances and exits were chained locked during the school day. I am just grateful that the school never caught on fire while I was a student there.<\/p>\n
2. During one of my childhood Halloween days, a teenager put a knief on my throat and demanded my Halloween goodies. I screamed and she took off running.<\/p>\n
3. I used to get into trouble for daydreaming in class during my elementary school days.<\/p>\n
4. When I was little, I enjoyed jumping out of second story windows, climbing tall fences and jumping from the roof-top of one brownstone building on to another one. My mother would have had a heart attack if she had seen me.<\/p>\n
5. During the summer months of my childhood, I enjoyed:<\/p>\n
a. Being out doors from sunup until midnight. I only went home for meals and to use the restroom.
\nb. Getting wet whenever someone illegally activated the local fire hydrants.
\nc. Informally dancing at street parties in NYC.<\/p>\n
6. I grew up in the South Bronx, the arson capital of the world. Therefore, I have seen more fires then most firefighters.<\/p>\n
7. Like Jennifer Lopez, I used to ride the number 6 train to my high school in another part of the Bronx. Unlike Jennifer Lopez, I am really from the block. She also grew up in the Bronx but attended private schools in Manhattan. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, she is not really from the block as her music album claims.<\/p>\n
I now wish to tag my Twitter friends Pamela Gill<\/a> and Eduardo Marcelo Peirano<\/a> to write a similar blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have not been tagged by anyone however, I noticed that many people are writing similar blogs. So, here are 7 facts you never knew about me: 1. I attended a NYC Junior High school which was secured by armed guards at the main entrance. It was a three story school and all other entrances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,42,53,75,101,132,144,183],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childhood-days","tag-arson","tag-bronx","tag-childhood","tag-facts","tag-halloween","tag-meme","tag-nyc","tag-summer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycrican.soy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}