{"id":10818,"date":"2016-02-18T19:38:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T19:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10818"},"modified":"2016-03-02T01:48:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T01:48:53","slug":"platzas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/platzas\/","title":{"rendered":"platzas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10819\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/20\/arts\/new-york-spas-that-offer-healing-relief.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10819\" class=\"wp-image-10819\" src=\"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20BATHS1-superJumbo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Willie Davis for The New York Times \" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20BATHS1-superJumbo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20BATHS1-superJumbo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20BATHS1-superJumbo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Workers applying a platza treatment \u2014 an aggressive scrubbing with oak leaves and olive oil soap \u2014 at the Russian &amp; Turkish Baths in the East Village. Willie Davis for The New York Times<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>about to jump neck deep into work and be MIA-ish for the next three weeks, so ONE more catch-up post. this article about the history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/nyregion\/after-124-years-the-russian-and-turkish-baths-are-still-a-hot-spot.html\" target=\"_blank\">russian baths in NYC<\/a> (whose previous owner died while <em>giving<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianandturkishbaths.com\/en\/services\/platza\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">platza<\/a>), where i went on my birthday in 2005, and sauna&#8217;ed, steamed, cold-plunged, had a platza, drank beers on the sunroof. the platza was literally, like, straight out of a porn movie, with steam rising around the masseuse and me; buckets of water being poured on both myself <em>and<\/em> the masseuse (who was shirtless, wearing only cutoffs); and lots of gasping (from the shock of the cold water; the beating of the broom; all the sex we were having????). more pix of the baths <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1OWPgLW\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about to jump neck deep into work and be MIA-ish for the next three weeks, so ONE more catch-up post. this article about the history of the russian baths in NYC (whose previous owner died while giving a platza), where i went on my birthday in 2005, and sauna&#8217;ed, steamed, cold-plunged, had a platza, drank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}