{"id":4079,"date":"2009-08-03T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2009-07-27T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T23:44:39","slug":"the-armchair-traveler-train-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-train-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Traveler – Train Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Trains\"Those Stimulus dollars are raising the hopes of train-loving Quad-Citians; they are starting to\u00a0dream of\u00a0 riding the rails to Chicago and \u00a0Iowa City, and perhaps to even more exotic lands.<\/p>\n

Trains are very cinematic and are excellent vehicles (ha!) to further the plot of mysteries and novels. In Falling in Love<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, DeNiro and Streep meet\u00a0 and, of course, fall in love, on a commuter train. The Station Agent<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a great indie film, is about a\u00a0loner who inherits a train depot. Against his will,\u00a0\u00a0he develops friendships with those he meets at his station.<\/p>\n

Novels made into films include Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery<\/em><\/strong><\/a> , John Godey’s The Taking of Pelham 123<\/em><\/strong><\/a> and Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train<\/em><\/strong><\/a> –\u00a0turned into a\u00a0\u00a0wonderfully funny and creepy \u00a0Hitchcock movie.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping you find love and\u00a0romance rather than crime, terrorism and murder on your next train ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those Stimulus dollars are raising the hopes of train-loving Quad-Citians; they are starting to\u00a0dream of\u00a0 riding the rails to Chicago and \u00a0Iowa City, and perhaps to even more exotic lands. Trains are very cinematic and are excellent vehicles (ha!) to further the plot of mysteries and novels. In Falling in[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[755,96,751,750],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-love-stories","tag-mysteries","tag-rail","tag-trains"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-13N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}