{"id":43477,"date":"2014-07-11T07:51:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/ah-those-golden-smelly-and-pestilential-days-of-yesteryear.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:45:26","slug":"ah-those-golden-smelly-and-pestilential-days-of-yesteryear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/ah-those-golden-smelly-and-pestilential-days-of-yesteryear.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, those golden, smelly-and-pestilential days of yesteryear"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yup, 1,250 tons of horse droppings in NYC per day, back before those Evil Internal Combustion Engines took over. Sure, cars and trucks have their own problems and costs and environmental impact — but all that manure (and the more-than-occasional dead horse) had both olfactory and<\/i> significant health issues.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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In 1893, 2.5 million pounds of horse manure filled NYC streets per day<\/a>
\n Think New York summers are pungent now? Imagine what it must’ve smelled like at the turn of the 20th century. Before the introduction of the automobile, horses were leaving about 2.5 million pounds of shit in the streets per day.\n <\/p>\n

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Yup, 1,250 tons of horse droppings in NYC per day, back before those Evil Internal Combustion Engines took over. Sure, cars and trucks have their own problems and costs and environmental impact — but all that manure (and the more-than-occasional dead horse) had both olfactory and significant health issues.\ufeff In 1893, 2.5 million pounds of … Continue reading “Ah, those golden, smelly-and-pestilential days of yesteryear”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,5,63,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-cars","category-environment","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/21\/and-sometimes-you-just-want-to-ride-a-horse.html","url_meta":{"origin":43477,"position":0},"title":"And sometimes you just want to ride a horse","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Oct-14 12:08pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Words of wisdom from +Doyce Testerman on the paper-book vs e-book debate. 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