{"id":800,"date":"2005-07-23T16:03:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/800"},"modified":"2005-07-23T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-23T14:03:56","slug":"i-love-this-town-but-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/800","title":{"rendered":"I love this town, but sometimes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I took the red line today.<\/i>  This means I was on a train for 1 hour, most of which was underground.<\/p>\n<p>The train used to be my favorite form of public transportation.  The hypnotic motion as it hurtled toward its destination, watching all different kinds of people get on and off&#8230;there is nothing like the Chicago El system.<\/p>\n<p>But now I come home to read the news (since television is so atrocious), and all I see is this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4694069.stm\">London attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/4709491.stm\"> Toll climbs in Egyptian attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/4708917.stm\">A young woman murdered in a bus bomb attack in Turkey is to be remembered at the wedding of her best friend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>and more and more and more.<\/i>  For some reason, being on the bus does not worry me as much&#8230;there is something about being underground, though&#8230;I see a higher police presence at the public library, on the trains, and on the streets.  <\/p>\n<p>I really, really like my bike.  Especially right now.  But even with all of the world news, and the tension created by the attacks all over&#8230;there was standing room only on the red line today.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"library.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/library.JPG\" width=\"271\" height=\"359\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">The H.W. Library<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the red line today. This means I was on a train for 1 hour, most of which was underground. The train used to be my favorite form of public transportation. The hypnotic motion as it hurtled toward its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}