{"id":67,"date":"2016-01-19T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:48:42","slug":"tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why-atlas-obscura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/19\/tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why-atlas-obscura\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists Love to Rub the Bronze Balls of Wall Street&#8217;s Charging Bull Statue. Why? | Atlas Obscura"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Right, so\u00a0back to the balls. It&#8217;s clear they\u00a0represent the intersection of two universal and timeless human fascinations: money and genitals. But when did touching them become good luck? Why do Brazilian businessmen rub their briefcases against the giant genitalia? Why do groups gather around the bull&#8217;s majestic butt crack for family photos, parents gently pushing their children to climb underneath and hug the balls from below?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/tourists-love-to-rub-the-bronze-balls-of-wall-streets-charging-bull-statue-why\">Tourists Love to Rub the Bronze Balls of Wall Street&#8217;s Charging Bull Statue. Why? | Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right, so\u00a0back to the balls. It&#8217;s clear they\u00a0represent the intersection of two universal and timeless human fascinations: money and genitals. But when did touching them become good luck? Why do Brazilian businessmen rub their briefcases against the giant genitalia? Why do groups gather around the bull&#8217;s majestic butt crack for family photos, parents gently pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}