{"id":70,"date":"2008-08-01T19:38:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/churchbasementroadshow\/2008\/08\/new-york-new-york.html"},"modified":"2008-08-01T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T19:38:06","slug":"new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/churchbasementroadshow\/2008\/08\/new-york-new-york.html","title":{"rendered":"New York, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re right in the middle of the show in Manhattan.  Doug is delivering his monologue at this moment.<br \/>\nWe arrived in Secaucus, NJ last night at 3am and parked in a Walmart parking lot.  Around 10:30am we got up and started the logistics.  We picked up a rental truck and got a tire changed on the trailer.  Then, back at Walmart, we moved a bunch of equipment from the trailer to the truck.<br \/>\nAround noon, we climbed into the cab of the rental truck (yes, all four of us in a two-seat cab).  We journeyed through the Lincoln Tunnel and fought Manhattan traffic to get to <a href=\"http:\/\/marblechurch.org\">Marble Church<\/a> at 5th Avenue and 29th Street.  It&#8217;s an awesome church, dating back to the 1780s.  But it&#8217;s surely most famous for the 52-year tenure of Rev. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Vincent_Peale\">Norman Vincent Peale<\/a>, the author of <em>The Power of Positive Thinking<\/em>.<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s a great show (so far) and a great crowd.  I gotta run and do my monologue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re right in the middle of the show in Manhattan. Doug is delivering his monologue at this moment. We arrived in Secaucus, NJ last night at 3am and parked in a Walmart parking lot. Around 10:30am we got up and started the logistics. 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