{"id":1433,"date":"2012-07-07T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2012-07-07T19:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T02:24:31","slug":"more-on-missing-your-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"More on Missing Your Train (The Day Before)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1434\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The consequences for <em>almost<\/em> missing our train? Two words\u2014More expenses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For the change fee at AmTrak<\/li>\n<li>For an extra night\u2019s lodging (and hotels aren\u2019t cheap in LA)<\/li>\n<li>For two extra meals<\/li>\n<li>And two cab fares<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yep. Seems you don\u2019t want to even <em>almost<\/em> miss your train. On the other hand . . .<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1976, and speaking figuratively, Charlotte and I missed another train in LA. Because of insufficient funds, I had to drop out of a seminary just up the road in La Mirada.<\/p>\n<p>That unexpected, un-asked-for and unwanted decision changed my life. Without it, I would have never been camp director at Hidden Falls Ranch, nor a professor at Amarillo College.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Maybe missing one\u2019s train isn\u2019t all that bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consequences for almost missing our train? Two words\u2014More expenses: For the change fee at AmTrak For an extra night\u2019s lodging (and hotels aren\u2019t cheap in LA) For two extra meals And two cab fares Yep. Seems you don\u2019t want to even almost miss your train. On the other hand . . . Back in [&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-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","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=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}