{"id":28797,"date":"2023-12-09T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28797"},"modified":"2023-12-09T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T20:18:08","slug":"trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28797","title":{"rendered":"Trains!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know I&#8217;ve had a wish that there would be trains that I could use to get around the state and the rest of the country, but that is not going to happen in my lifetime but the Biden administration just earmarked almost 8 billion dollars to go for rail extensions and upgrades so many of the rails will qualify for high speed trains&#8230;I know this is a baby step but you have to start somewhere&#8230;and it would be so cool if I could walk down to the park down the hill and get on a train to GR for the day&#8230;but then you don&#8217;t have any way other than a car to get to the suburbs&#8230;when I was young they had busses that ran from GR to Ada and my mother took me to downtown GR when I was about 6 but not now&#8230;.I really like the trains in the UK since every town had a train station and other forms of transport like the trams in Manchester or Dublin&#8230;or the underground in London&#8230;that would be cool to have intercity rail again like they did back in the 40&#8217;s and 50&#8217;s&#8230;oh, well&#8230;I can dream&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;you know I&#8217;ve had a wish that there would be trains that I could use to get around the state and the rest of the country, but that is not going to happen in my lifetime but the Biden administration just earmarked almost 8 billion dollars to go for rail extensions and upgrades so many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=28797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trains!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-28797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-rail-upgrades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28798,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28797\/revisions\/28798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}