{"id":411,"date":"2009-01-09T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2009-01-20T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T15:37:10","slug":"we-buy-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/01\/we-buy-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"We Buy Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"If a couple’a stubble-faced young guys came up to you on the street waving dollar bills and shouting that they wanted to buy your conversation or a secret you’ve never told anyone, what would you do? Today, at Bryant Park in Manhattan, that was Andrew Marantz<\/a>, Ben Brown, and me. We were the New York Conversation Exchange\u2014picking up the human pieces of the mess left by that Stock Exchange further on downtown, one stranger at a time.<\/p>\n