{"id":760709,"date":"2022-01-21T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/retired-staten-island-ferry-boat-bought-by-colin-jost-and-pete-davidson\/"},"modified":"2022-01-21T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:30:13","slug":"retired-staten-island-ferry-boat-bought-by-colin-jost-and-pete-davidson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/21\/retired-staten-island-ferry-boat-bought-by-colin-jost-and-pete-davidson\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Staten Island Ferry boat bought by Colin Jost and Pete Davidson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Retired-Staten-Island-Ferry-boat-bought-by-Colin-Jost-and-Pete-Davidson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A retired Staten Island Ferry boat put up for auction by New York City was bought by Saturday Night Live stars Colin Jost and Pete Davidson, along with a club owner.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Jost, Davidson and Stand comedy-club co-owner Paul Italia confirmed the trio were the ones who placed the winning $280,100 bid for the John F. Kennedy, which shuttled commuters between Staten Island and Manhattan for 50 years before being retired due to &#8220;mechanical issues&#8221; in August.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The boat&#8217;s mechanical problems are not expected to be an issue, however, as the buyers plan to find it a permanent waterfront home and convert it into a live entertainment space and event venue.<\/p>\n<p>The rep said the 5,200-person capacity boat would host comedy performances, art events and serve food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 21 (UPI) &#8212; A retired Staten Island Ferry boat put up for auction by New York City was bought by Saturday Night Live stars Colin Jost and Pete Davidson, along with a club owner. A representative for Jost, Davidson and Stand comedy-club co-owner Paul Italia confirmed the trio were the ones who placed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}