{"id":12111,"date":"2010-02-04T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=12111"},"modified":"2011-07-26T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T19:31:04","slug":"mark-malkoff-gets-carried-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/mark-malkoff-gets-carried-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Malkoff Gets Carried in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted here <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/09\/free-hugs\/\">about Free Hugs campaign<\/a> some time ago. \u00a0Today I came across an experiment with a smaller goal, but of the same sociality (if there is even such a word). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gi4ClspNrNs\">Mark Malkoff gets a free ride across\u00a0Manhattan\u00a0island<\/a> on the backs of total strangers, proving once again that this world is full of good, fun, strong and crazy people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gi4ClspNrNs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted here about Free Hugs campaign some time ago. \u00a0Today I came across an experiment with a smaller goal, but of the same sociality (if there is even such a word). \u00a0Mark Malkoff gets a free ride across\u00a0Manhattan\u00a0island on the backs of total strangers, proving once again that this world is full of good, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/04\/mark-malkoff-gets-carried-in-new-york-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mark Malkoff Gets Carried in New York City<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1115,2872,1353,79,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-experiments","tag-mark-malkoff","tag-new-york","tag-people","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15626,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/28\/mark-malkoff-offers-new-yorkers-a-free-cab-drive-or-does-he\/","url_meta":{"origin":12111,"position":0},"title":"Mark Malkoff offers New Yorkers a free cab drive. 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