{"id":397,"date":"2012-02-16T15:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=397"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:18:01","slug":"nycs-metro-mitt-a-creative-idea-but-does-it-actually-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/16\/nycs-metro-mitt-a-creative-idea-but-does-it-actually-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC&#8217;s Metro Mitt a creative idea, but does it actually do anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/metromitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-398\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/metromitt-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/metromitt-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/metromitt-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/metromitt.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Designed to reduce the risk of catching a disease on the subway, these metro mitts are available for free at many of New York City&#8217;s subway locations. Not only do the mitts look incredibly tacky, but will this thin sheet of plastic really help prevent people from all of the germs in the subway? Although the Metro Mitt will help reduce the risk of germs on your hands, there still remains thousands of other ways to contract a disease on a subway.<\/p>\n<p>photo retrieved from http:\/\/gawker.com\/5788169\/the-disposable-subway-riding-glove-is-completely-idiotic<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designed to reduce the risk of catching a disease on the subway, these metro mitts are available for free at many of New York City&#8217;s subway locations. Not only do the mitts look incredibly tacky, but will this thin sheet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/16\/nycs-metro-mitt-a-creative-idea-but-does-it-actually-do-anything\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6559],"tags":[8413,8414],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease","tag-metro","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}