{"id":81274,"date":"2022-03-25T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81274"},"modified":"2022-03-23T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T17:19:42","slug":"just-another-day-on-the-vomit-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81274","title":{"rendered":"Just Another Day On The Vomit Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hand one to Fred Melo of the <em>Pioneer Press<\/em> &#8211; he&#8217;s done the unthnkable, for a Twin Cities mainstream media figure; actually reporting on the actual state of life on the &#8220;Vomit Comet&#8221; (AKA Green Line).. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I need to take up day drinking and marriage-a-Juana so I can fit in with the cool kids on the train sitting in a cloud of smoke so thick at 11:55 am that one guy (no mask) can\u2019t stop coughing and now my throat\u2019s burning. That\u2019s the good stuff right there. \ud83d\udca8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oi4zRVdFYd\">pic.twitter.com\/oi4zRVdFYd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Frederick Melo, Reporter\/Axolotl (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1506314335697649672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of the blog emailed re this story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;d rather double down on reminding people why the Green Line is so awful than be snarky. But, with all the urbanists subtweeting Fred Melo&#8217;s post about smoking\/drinking on light rail, them tweeting that smoking is no big deal, not a safety issue, I kind of want to ask if smokers will be welcome again at bars\/restaurants again.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a mostly smokeless smoke.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand one to Fred Melo of the Pioneer Press &#8211; he&#8217;s done the unthnkable, for a Twin Cities mainstream media figure; actually reporting on the actual state of life on the &#8220;Vomit Comet&#8221; (AKA Green Line).. A friend of the blog emailed re this story: I&#8217;d rather double down on reminding people why the Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81275,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81274\/revisions\/81275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}