{"id":1426,"date":"2012-07-06T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T01:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2012-07-06T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T01:57:55","slug":"dont-miss-your-train-the-night-before-the-day-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Miss Your Train (the night before the day before)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1427\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>They\u2019re the first words that popped up when I googled \u201cWhat if I miss my train?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was Monday a couple of weeks ago, I was doing research on traveling by Amtrak and noticed that many trains run late\u2014I mean seriously late, two or three hours late.<br \/>\nAnd then I remembered I had given us less than two hours to make connections in LA where we were to leave the Southwest Chief to board the Coastal Starlight to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, scary.<\/p>\n<p>Because, as the Internet pundit pointed out, there are consequences to missing a train.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Amtrak will put you on the next one\u2014riding coach. The sleepers are already taken by those savvy travelers who, unlike me, allow for delays.<\/p>\n<p>Which would mean Charlotte and I would spend 30-plus hours enjoying the landscapes of California, Oregon and Washington\u2014IN AN UPRIGHT POSITION.<\/p>\n<p>Yep. Got those reservations changed. But guess what? There are even consequences when you almost miss a train.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019re the first words that popped up when I googled \u201cWhat if I miss my train?\u201d It was Monday a couple of weeks ago, I was doing research on traveling by Amtrak and noticed that many trains run late\u2014I mean seriously late, two or three hours late. And then I remembered I had given us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}