{"id":6906,"date":"2016-12-16T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=6906"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:36:38","slug":"new-yorkatlantic-city-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-yorkatlantic-city-10\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2016\/ac_day2_006_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_006-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_006.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_006-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\nA<\/a>tlantic City &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>I walked out on the beach opposite Ceasar&#8217;s and Playground Pier (originally the Million Dollar Pier), and took several pictures of the huge wall of signs attached to the troubled mall. A new investor recently bought the highly leveraged pier for $2.5 million and hopes to attract a younger crowd of shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>At my feet in the sand I picked up a cigarette carton with Russian lettering on it. I thought reflexively, &#8220;The Russians are coming! But the Russians are already here.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><br \/>\n<em>Russian pop diva and Eurovision stalwart Philipp Kirkorov has revealed that he is a supporter of Donald Trump. In an interview with BBC News, the \u201cYou Are the Only One\u201d songwriter spoke of his long friendship with the American presidential candidate, and his hope for closer relations between Russia and the United States.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kirkorov, who represented Russia at Eurovision in 1995, first met Trump in 1994 when Kirkorov and his now ex-wife and Russia\u2019s 1997 Eurovision singer Alla Pugacheva performed at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2016\/ac_day2_012_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_012-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_012.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ac_day2_012-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Atlantic City &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>The pier extends well into the surf, and on this damp and gloomy day, the waves crashed and swelled around the supporting columns.<\/p>\n<p><em>Benjamin Strauss, a sea level expert at Climate Central, an organization of scientists, says that people in Atlantic City are uniquely vulnerable to rising seas because they inhabit a barrier island with extremely low and flat terrain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In January of 2016, after a winter storm flooded parts of the Jersey coastline, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, then a candidate for president, sarcastically asked whether he should\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2016\/01\/christie_on_storm_criticism_in_nh_its_already_done.html\">\u201cpick up a mop\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to help with flooding\u2014a remark that was criticized by environmentalists for being out of touch with the gravity of the situation. Christie accepts that human activity contributes to climate change, but contends that the issue \u201cis not a crisis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic City &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose I walked out on the beach opposite Ceasar&#8217;s and Playground Pier (originally the Million Dollar Pier), and took several pictures of the huge wall of signs attached to the troubled mall. A new investor recently bought the highly leveraged pier for $2.5 million and hopes to attract a younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}