{"id":59,"date":"2010-04-27T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:00:41","slug":"finest-authors-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Finest Author&#8217;s Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coastrail.com\/previous\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"train\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/train-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Train in the Salinas Valley\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/train-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/train-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/train.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hold That Train<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In my former life, I was a journalist. Once, I\u00a0had decided to write\u00a0a news article on train travel, and Amtrak had\u00a0comped me\u00a0three tickets to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The travel required that I ride the\u00a0Coast Starlighter\u00a0from Salinas to San Luis Obispo, wait 20 minutes, and catch the train back. My daughter, 4, and my mother-in-law accompanied me.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was a great experience, but we were delayed on the first leg, which meant we would miss the connection home. To my surprise, when we reached San Luis Obispo, they had held the train that would take us back to Salinas.\u00a0 Apparently, Amtrak didn&#8217;t want a &#8220;fun train travel&#8221; article to turn into a &#8220;when you miss your\u00a0train home&#8221; article.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The best part of having a train held for you is walking the length of the train with everyone staring\u00a0\u00a0at you. For a moment,\u00a0we weren&#8217;t just Grandma, mom, and little girl, we were famous people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In my former life, I was a journalist. Once, I\u00a0had decided to write\u00a0a news article on train travel, and Amtrak had\u00a0comped me\u00a0three tickets to do it. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The travel required that I ride the\u00a0Coast Starlighter\u00a0from Salinas to San Luis Obispo, wait 20 minutes, and catch the train back. My daughter, 4, and my mother-in-law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.luanneoleas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}