{"id":111,"date":"2004-03-17T20:47:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2004-03-17T20:47:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T20:47:56","slug":"ive_been_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/ive_been_away\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic has really gotten bad in LA.  Almost as bad as San Francisco, except on a larger scale.  How you ask? Well&#8230;<br \/>\nThe traffic crawls or just doesn&#8217;t move on major east\/west arteries.  Ever try to drive on Geary during the PM commute? It&#8217;s like the 10 except the 10 is much bigger.<br \/>\nThe commute begins earlier in the day for both morning and evening (again, why do they call it &#8220;rush&#8221; hour?).  People trying to leave earlier to beat the rush, along with everyone else.<br \/>\nFrom 1997-2001, I made regular trips to LA to stay with friends and to hang out.  I did a LOT of driving.  It wasn&#8217;t THIS bad back then.<br \/>\nDid all of this congestion increase just in the past three years?<br \/>\nOn the other hand, my friend in South Pasadena lives three blocks from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.net\/riding_metro\/metro_rail\/gold_line\/default.htm\">Gold Line<\/a> stop.  Very convenient if you destination is also near a Metro station.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/missionstation.jpg?w=525\"><br \/>\n<em>Mission Station, South Pasadena on the Gold line<\/em><br \/>\nI wanted to take a blurry late night pic like I did with the Yamanote when I was in Japan, but they don&#8217;t go that fast when they pull in.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s92785059.onlinehome.us\/blogpix\/goldline.jpg?w=525\"><br \/>\n<em>Gold Line light rail<\/em><br \/>\nThey go walking speed.  The cars were nice and shiny and clean though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traffic has really gotten bad in LA. Almost as bad as San Francisco, except on a larger scale. How you ask? Well&#8230; The traffic crawls or just doesn&#8217;t move on major east\/west arteries. Ever try to drive on Geary during the PM commute? It&#8217;s like the 10 except the 10 is much bigger. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/ive_been_away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;ve been away&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-travel-advice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}