{"id":1056,"date":"2009-12-31T18:18:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2009-12-31T18:23:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:23:43","slug":"free-metrocards-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/free-metrocards-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Free $2.25 Metrocards on New Years Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1057\" title=\"ciroc-debit-card\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ciroc-debit-card-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ciroc-debit-card-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ciroc-debit-card.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/your-ride-could-be-on-ciroc-this-new-years-eve---diddy-and-official-vodka-of-new-years-eve-helping-consumers-of-new-york-city-and-las-vegas-get-home-safely-80260042.html\">Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/31\/free-subway-rides-on-new-years-it-happened-twice\/\">article<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teams of people representing CIROC, the &#8220;Official Vodka of New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8221; &#8211; and Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs will distribute thousands of debit and MTA Metrocards to adult consumers (while supplies last) in New York City between 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on New Year&#8217;s Eve. Each debit card will provide up to $15.00 in cab fare &#8211; the approximate cost of a single taxicab fare within New York City. All MTA Metrocards are redeemable for a one-way subway or bus fare valued at $2.25.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, $15 of cab fare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/tlc\/html\/passenger\/taxicab_rate.shtml\">will not take you<\/a> any significant distance. If you&#8217;re taking a cab, you&#8217;re probably going further than just to the UWS or the UES or to Williamsburg. He should really be giving out $30 to $40 debit cards.<\/p>\n<p>Second of all, what is this $2.25 Metrocard? Is it really just a normal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orenstransitpage.com\/otpnycpics\/mcbus.htm\">green-on-white<\/a> single ride Metrocard? Seems unlikely, since they normally expire within 2 hours. So will it be a normal pay-per-ride Metrocard? Will it be branded for the Vodka? If you get one, please let me know. And if it&#8217;s a special Metrocard and you want to let me have it when you&#8217;re done with it, that would be swell \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release New York Times article Teams of people representing CIROC, the &#8220;Official Vodka of New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8221; &#8211; and Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs will distribute thousands of debit and MTA Metrocards to adult consumers (while supplies last) in New York &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/free-metrocards-on-new-years-eve\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,83],"tags":[398,67],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaways-and-freebies","category-metrocard","tag-metrocard","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}