title: How do I strip the first character
body: <p>I am constructing a URL and I have</p>
  
  <pre><code>escape($('#count_of_stations').html()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The problem is the value will come in like this </p>
  
  <pre><code>1 station
  2 stations
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to strip everything other then the first character, so is there a way to sent it with the " station(s)"?</p>