{"id":37956,"date":"2025-11-22T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/2500-new-yorkers-showed-up-for-an-old-mans-five-minute-cigarette-break-invitation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:32:06","slug":"2500-new-yorkers-showed-up-for-an-old-mans-five-minute-cigarette-break-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/2500-new-yorkers-showed-up-for-an-old-mans-five-minute-cigarette-break-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"2,500 New Yorkers showed up for an old man\u2019s five-minute cigarette break invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">2,500 New Yorkers showed up for an old man\u2019s five-minute cigarette break invitation<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">A five-minute cigarette invitation from a Brooklyn pensioner known as \u201cBreaking Bob\u201d unexpectedly became New York\u2019s latest viral flash-mob. After clips of him handing out flyers in Washington Square Park spread online, roughly 2,500 people showed up for his \u201ccigarette with me\u201d meet-up. Bob used the moment to warn the crowd against smoking before leading a surreal, citywide smoke break.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/2500-new-yorkers-showed-up-for-an-old-mans-five-minute-cigarette-break-invitation\/articleshow\/125497580.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=A+five-minute+cigarette+invitation+from+a+Brooklyn+pensioner+known+as+%E2%80%9CBreaking+Bob%E2%80%9D+unexpectedly+became+New+York%E2%80%99s+latest+viral+flash-mob.+After+clips+of+him+handing+out+flyers+in+Washington+Sq\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts 2,500 New Yorkers showed up for an old man\u2019s five-minute cigarette break invitation A five-minute cigarette<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}