{"id":25385,"date":"2016-11-08T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=25385"},"modified":"2016-11-08T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T17:49:17","slug":"miscellaneouskarens-thoughtsnew-york-im-back-in-la-just-in-time-for-todays-election-go-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneouskarens-thoughtsnew-york-im-back-in-la-just-in-time-for-todays-election-go-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"MISCELLANEOUS\/KAREN&#8217;S THOUGHTS\/NEW YORK: I\u2019M BACK IN LA! (JUST IN TIME FOR TODAY\u2019S ELECTION! GO, HILLARY!!!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>I\u2019M BACK IN LA! (JUST IN TIME FOR TODAY\u2019S ELECTION! GO, HILLARY!!!)<\/h1>\n<p>I came back to Los Angeles last week, to be here for tomorrow\u2019s major endeavor.\u00a0 I needed to make sure I was back in time to vote\u2026for Hillary, of course!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25394\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25394\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25394\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20801-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"On the plane, heading back to LA.  Photo by Karen Salkin.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20801-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20801-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20801.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the plane, heading back to LA. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But, before I go back to sharing the tales of my glamorous LA life, I still have over another week of East Coast stories to go!<\/p>\n<p>If you guys think I\u2019m on the go here in LA, you\u2019ve never seen anything like my schedule in New York for those three weeks.\u00a0 <em>I\u2019ve<\/em> never seen anything like it, and I\u2019m <em>me<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>While in the Big Apple and environs, I reviewed six restaurants, a bunch of parties, two musicals, three screenings, and a partridge in a pear tree, (which was lovely, by the way.)\u00a0 And a hair salon and an out-of-town bed-and-breakfast, as well!\u00a0 I spent time not only in Manhattan, (more than I ever had before in my whole life, actually,) but also Brooklyn; Greenwich, Connecticut; New Hope, Pennsylvania; Lambertville, New Jersey; and Danbury, Connecticut.\u00a0\u00a0<em>In three weeks<\/em>!!!\u00a0 In that span of time in Los Angeles, I often spend the majority of it <em>in my<\/em> <em>house<\/em>! (I know you\u2019re surprised by that fact, but after I <em>live<\/em> all the events, I need time to <em>write<\/em> about them! Unfortunately, my thoughts on what I\u2019m doing don\u2019t just get magically transferred to the page from my brain, complete with images!)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25393\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25393\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25393\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20401-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Just one of my over 2,500 images of NY in those three weeks. Photo by Karen Salkin.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20401-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20401-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20401.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just one of my over 2,500 images of NY in those three weeks. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I seriously don\u2019t know how I did it there.\u00a0 You need to have lots of stamina, and be in uber- great shape, to live in, or even just hang-out in, New York City!\u00a0 A majority of the residents look really worn-down, but you just know that they have to be more physically fit than we car-riding West Coast folks are.\u00a0 I ate like a garbage truck for those three weeks, but didn\u2019t gain even one ounce of weight.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t figure that out until I realized how much I walked in that city.\u00a0 And how much stuff I <em>schlepped<\/em> there, too!\u00a0 You have to bring all your possessions with you every time you leave the house, because you never know what you\u2019ll need to get through the day.\u00a0 Each morning, you have to pack as though you\u2019re going on\u00a0 a day trip, which you virtually are!\u00a0 (I often left my headquarters by 10AM, and did not make it back there until midnight!)\u00a0 In LA, your life is in your car.\u00a0 I barely even carry a purse here!<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, keep an eye out for the rest of my New York reviews that are yet to be published, especially if you live out that way, or are planning to visit that fair city in the near future. (Or <em>ever<\/em>, actually. Most everything I\u2019ve been writing about will be there <em>forever<\/em>!) Mixed in will be some of my new LA reports, and by Thanksgiving, we should be back to all-LA all the time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25388\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150506082950-hillary-clinton-las-vegas-5-large-169-e1478548585164.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25388\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25388\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150506082950-hillary-clinton-las-vegas-5-large-169-e1478548585164-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Please vote for Hillary Clinton today!  If you care about America at all, you know it's the right thing to do!\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150506082950-hillary-clinton-las-vegas-5-large-169-e1478548585164-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/150506082950-hillary-clinton-las-vegas-5-large-169-e1478548585164.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please vote for Hillary Clinton today! If you care about America at all, you know it&#8217;s the right thing to do!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Until April, that is. I had such a wonderful month in NY this trip that I vowed to not wait another two-and-a-half years to return!<\/p>\n<p>And for today, I beg everyone reading this in America to get out there and vote for Hillary! This time, it\u2019s<em> really<\/em> not about me\u2014it\u2019s about the safety and the good and the future of this country. If (God forbid, bite my tongue) the Presidential election does not go the right way, the rest of my reviews from here on out may just be coming to you from Canada!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019M BACK IN LA! (JUST IN TIME FOR TODAY\u2019S ELECTION! GO, HILLARY!!!) I came back to Los Angeles last week, to be here for tomorrow\u2019s major endeavor.\u00a0 I needed to make sure I was back in time to vote\u2026for Hillary, of course! But, before I go back to sharing the tales of my glamorous LA<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneouskarens-thoughtsnew-york-im-back-in-la-just-in-time-for-todays-election-go-hillary\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-karens-thoughts","category-miscellaneous","category-all-things-new-york-and-bicoastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25398,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions\/25398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}