{"id":7915,"date":"2014-02-18T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7915"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:46:44","slug":"american-experience-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7915","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN EXPERIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/penn_station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7916\" alt=\"penn_station\" src=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/penn_station-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/penn_station-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/penn_station.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>THE RISE AND FALL OF PENN STATION<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 @ 10:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City&#8217;s Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels terminated in what was one of the greatest architectural achievements of its time, Pennsylvania Station. Penn Station covered nearly eight acres, extended two city blocks, and housed one of the largest public spaces in the world. But just 53 years after the station\u2019s opening, the monumental building that was supposed to last forever, to herald and represent the American Empire, was slated to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/films\/penn\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE RISE AND FALL OF PENN STATION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 @ 10:00PM In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City&#8217;s Hudson and East Rivers, connecting the railroad to New York and New England, knitting together the entire eastern half of the United States. The tunnels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=7915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMERICAN EXPERIENCE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7917,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7915\/revisions\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}