{"id":1649,"date":"2010-05-04T07:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:36:40","slug":"random-notes-may-4-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: May 4, 2010."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Statesman<\/strong> has the first article I&#8217;ve seen touching on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/capital-metro-weekend-trains-drew-crowds-but-no-666167.html\">ridership for the Capital Metro trains<\/a>. While this article mostly discusses the experimental Saturday train, this paragraph is significant:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Capital Metro has had much lighter ridership for its Monday-to-Friday  rush hour service during the line&#8217;s six weeks of existence \u2014 about 1,000   a day since fares began, officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <strong>LAT <\/strong>profiles the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/asia\/la-fg-noodle-cafe-20100504,0,443838,full.story\">Pho Binh noodle shop in Saigon<\/a>. They serve &#8220;peace noodles&#8221; soup; and the Tet Offensive was plotted upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.com\/news\/top_stories\/92742339.html\">40th anniversary of Kent State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obit watch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/04\/arts\/04redgrave.html?ref=todayspaper\">Lynn Redgrave<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Statesman has the first article I&#8217;ve seen touching on ridership for the Capital Metro trains. While this article mostly discusses the experimental Saturday train, this paragraph is significant: Capital Metro has had much lighter ridership for its Monday-to-Friday rush hour service during the line&#8217;s six weeks of existence \u2014 about 1,000 a day since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,16,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-food","category-obits","category-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}