{"id":4503,"date":"2023-02-25T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2023-02-25T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T23:35:20","slug":"union-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2023\/02\/union-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_Station_(Los_Angeles)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Union Station in L.A<\/a>. It opened in 1939, but the city had plans for a central train station as early as 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Railroad companies were competing and didn&#8217;t want to share tracks or a common station. They fought so hard, it took <em>20 years and two supreme court hearings<\/em> before they could agree with the city to have a shared station. And by that time in 1939, people were all about cars and that new thing that was faster than anything before, planes.<\/p>\n<p>A whole generation started paying taxes between the start of negotiations and when they concluded. For a train station. Wild AF!<\/p>\n<p>When I hear people in their 20s today talking about <em>&#8220;car culture this, car culture that, ban all cars boo&#8221;<\/em> I&#8217;m just like <em>&#8220;trains kind of suck, stop being dogmatic also pettiness has been ruining everything since forever&#8221;<\/em>. Then they order an Uber or jump on a scooter, zip through traffic with that thousand-yard scooter stare, and I shake my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about Union Station in L.A. It opened in 1939, but the city had plans for a central train station as early as 1905. Railroad companies were competing and didn&#8217;t want to share tracks or a common station. They fought so hard, it took 20 years and two supreme court hearings before they could agree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}