{"id":481,"date":"2008-07-23T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/23\/amtrak-fail\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T17:57:15","slug":"amtrak-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/23\/amtrak-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak: Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/money.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I just checked for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightpc.com\/blog\">friend<\/a> on train ticket prices from the Detroit Area to Chicago.  $70 each way, $140 round trip.  That does not compute.  If he were to drive, I'm going to estimate it would cost $80 in gas - and he'd have the convenience of having a car once he's here.  The airlines give me $160 with taxes and fees included, at a quarter of the trip time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/29\/rambling-train-of-thought\/\">I love taking the train<\/a>, but in this case it seems that it just doesn't make economical sense.  Especially for more than one person.  I wonder why...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just checked for a friend on train ticket prices from the Detroit Area to Chicago. $70 each way, $140 round trip. That does not compute. If he were to drive, I&#8217;m going to estimate it would cost $80 in gas &#8211; and he&#8217;d have the convenience of having a car once he&#8217;s here. The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}