{"id":1548,"date":"2022-11-22T08:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:14","slug":"gauging-our-return-to-office-and-the-subways-one-tip-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/11\/22\/gauging-our-return-to-office-and-the-subways-one-tip-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauging Our Return to Office and the Subways, One Tip at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/19\/arts\/music\/subway-buskers-new-york-city.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">NYT<\/a>) It has been over a year since buskers, and their music, returned underground, and their slightly fuller tip jars and instrument cases suggest things may be looking up. Subway ridership hit<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/new.mta.info\/press-release\/icymi-governor-hochul-announces-subway-ridership-and-omny-records-subways-118th\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0a pandemic-era record<\/a>\u00a0on Oct. 27, with close to 3.9 million people \u2014 the most on a single day since the pandemic struck, but still just 67.5 percent of a comparable prepandemic day. Now some of the artists who perform underground each day \u2014 playing steel drums and Chinese erhus, singing operatic arias, squeezing accordions and coaxing ethereal sounds from musical saws \u2014 are seeing the difference in their tip jars and expectantly open instrument cases.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NYT) It has been over a year since buskers, and their music, returned underground, and their slightly fuller tip jars and instrument cases suggest things may be looking up. Subway ridership hit\u00a0a pandemic-era record\u00a0on Oct. 27, with close to 3.9 million people \u2014 the most on a single day since the pandemic struck, but still [&hellip;]<\/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":"","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}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}