{"id":2612,"date":"2011-06-14T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T03:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2011-06-19T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T01:08:50","slug":"far-rockaway-mcdonalds-ad-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2011\/06\/far-rockaway-mcdonalds-ad-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution: This McDonald&#8217;s Ad May Offend You If You&#8217;re From Far Rockaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"McDonald's pulled this ad because it may have offended residents of Far Rockaway. [PHOTO: NY Daily News]\" rel=\"lightbox-farRockawayAd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/mcdonalds-rockaway-ad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"McDonald's pulled this ad because it may have offended residents of Far Rockaway. [PHOTO: NY Daily News]\" style=\"margin:4px 0px 6px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/mcdonalds-rockaway-ad.jpg\" width=\"406\" border=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis recent ad on the NYC Subway caught my attention. I grew up riding the L.I.R.R. between Manhattan and my home town of Valley Stream on the south shore. Far Rockaway is the eastern terminus of my line, and where I suspect many LIRR and Subway riders over the years have found themselves after a little in-transit catnap. So to me, this McDonald&#8217;s ad is pretty funny. Residents of Far Rockaway didn&#8217;t see the humor and demanded that the ad be pulled. Mickey D&#8217;s gave in. I still find the ad funny.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, is it just me, or does anyone else think there are far too many McDonald&#8217;s ads on mass transit? I&#8217;ll have to do a post on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recent ad on the NYC Subway caught my attention. I grew up riding the L.I.R.R. between Manhattan and my home town of Valley Stream on the south shore. Far Rockaway is the eastern terminus of my line, and where I suspect many LIRR and Subway riders over the years have found themselves after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[399,311,3],"tags":[1000,16,237,3598,401,1001],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-city-subway","category-trainrailroad-stuff","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-far-rockaway","tag-long-island-railroad","tag-mcdonalds","tag-new-york-city-subway","tag-nyc-subway","tag-valley-stream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}