{"id":3432,"date":"2012-06-06T14:02:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/06\/i-would-like-to-shoot-them-doo-woppers-all-dead\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T22:56:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T05:56:23","slug":"i-would-like-to-shoot-them-doo-woppers-all-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/06\/i-would-like-to-shoot-them-doo-woppers-all-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I would like to shoot them [doo-woppers] all dead.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/doowah_don_in_village_kzpDMCf5Ef4RSZvmhv3v1H\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>West Village residents complain about street doo-wop singers<\/h1>\n<p><em>Singers hit a sour note with locals<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By DOUG AUER and ANTONIO ANTENUCCI<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/rw\/nypost\/2012\/06\/04\/news\/web_photos\/spank_band--300x300.jpg\" style=\"margin-right: 10px\" border=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" align=\"left\" \/>Doo-wop\u2019s dead \u2014 or at least some folks would like it to be.<\/p>\n<p>West Village residents and business people want cops to permanently tune out the less-than-harmonious doo-wop singers who incessantly serenade tourists on their street corners in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can hear these guys right outside my window, and after 15 years, I would like to shoot them all dead,\u201d griped Rosemary Bella, who lives on Bleecker Street.<\/p>\n<p>With the warmer weather, the a cappella assault reaches a crescendo on Fridays and Saturdays at the corner of Bleecker and Leroy streets, said Bella and several other residents who sounded off on the racket at a recent Sixth Precinct community meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Fed-up resident Dorothy Green compiled the number of hours, days and weekends that groups perform, and she presented the stats to police brass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt works out to about 700 hours of doo-wop a year \u2014 and it\u2019s not very well sung, either,\u201d sniffed Green, president of the Central Village Block Association.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/manhattan\/doowah_don_in_village_kzpDMCf5Ef4RSZvmhv3v1H\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The New York Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Post West Village residents complain about street doo-wop singers Singers hit a sour note with locals By DOUG AUER and ANTONIO ANTENUCCI Doo-wop\u2019s dead \u2014 or at least some folks would like it to be. West Village residents and business people want cops to permanently tune out the less-than-harmonious doo-wop singers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}