{"id":2339,"date":"2012-02-18T19:38:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T19:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sierrarein.com\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2020-09-30T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:49:11","slug":"your-wish-my-command-a-gift-from-bernie-of-the-mta-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/2012\/02\/18\/your-wish-my-command-a-gift-from-bernie-of-the-mta-system\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your wish, my command&#8221; &#8211; a gift from Bernie of the MTA System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;silly fun&#8221;! A week or so ago, the New York Times posted <a href=\"cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/15\/stand-by-for-an-improbable-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article<\/a> online about the announcements made over the MTA system, and asked others to comment via Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nytimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@nytimes<\/a>) or via the website about what readers would like to hear the MTA subway announcers to say. I jokingly tweeted to @nytimes that I would love it if I heard over the speaker &#8220;Have fun at the audition\/rehearsal\/performance\/party, Sierra!&#8221;  I imagined that would be a great pick-me-up, especially if it&#8217;s 7am and I&#8217;m on my sleepy way to sign up for an EPA.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/brwagenblast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernie Wagonblast<\/a> (who has an awesome name and who is an official voice of the New York subways, AirTrain JFK and Newark) decided to record and post a quick, 3-second, simple audio track of him wishing me well at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brwagenblast\/status\/170141537399881729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;the audition&#8221; via Twitter<\/a>; as he tweeted &#8220;Your wish, my command.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I love it! Hear the full 3-second well-wishing here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/36808218&amp;color=0066cc&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;silly fun&#8221;! A week or so ago, the New York Times posted an article online about the announcements made over the MTA system, and asked others to comment via Twitter (@nytimes) or via the website about what readers would like to hear the MTA subway announcers to say. I jokingly tweeted to @nytimes that I would love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierrarein.com\/posts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}