{"id":14472,"date":"2016-10-31T21:30:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/this-is-a-test-do-not-leave-new-york-for-toronto-this-is-only-a-test\/"},"modified":"2016-10-31T21:30:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:30:54","slug":"this-is-a-test-do-not-leave-new-york-for-toronto-this-is-only-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/this-is-a-test-do-not-leave-new-york-for-toronto-this-is-only-a-test\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a test. Do not leave New York for Toronto. THIS IS ONLY A TEST."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanticize Toronto all you like, but don&#8217;t actually move there.\u00a0 Last week, a Huffington Post contributor by the name of Cori Carl\u00a0penned an\u00a0article\u00a0telling New Yorkers to abdicate\u00a0the city that never sleeps for a city\u00a0that actually sleeps just fine:\u00a0Toronto. 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