{"id":5786,"date":"2010-03-04T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5786"},"modified":"2010-02-09T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:33:38","slug":"all-the-live-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-the-live-long-day\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Live Long Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2227224\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5907\" title=\"waiting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/waiting.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/waiting.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/waiting.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>With the last years&#8217; worth of talk about passenger rail between here and Chicago, there is a vivid battle on our local papers&#8217; comment pages between the &#8220;that would be nice&#8221; faction and the &#8220;they&#8217;re just trying to get re-elected, where will the money come from?&#8221; team.<\/p>\n<p>Before taking a side, one might wish to peruse this fresh book by James McCommons, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2227224\" target=\"_blank\">Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one isn&#8217;t gathering dust on our shelf.\u00a0 People are using it no doubt to bolster their arguments.\u00a0 That being said, how cool would it be for Cubs fans and the 75% of the University of Iowa students from Chicagoland? Or, nationally, anyone spending two hours riding the bus in Los Angeles for lack of infrastructure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the last years&#8217; worth of talk about passenger rail between here and Chicago, there is a vivid battle on our local papers&#8217; comment pages between the &#8220;that would be nice&#8221; faction and the &#8220;they&#8217;re just trying to get re-elected, where will the money come from?&#8221; team. Before taking a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/all-the-live-long-day\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[10,364],"tags":[1066,751,1017,750,122],"class_list":["post-5786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-consumer-news","tag-public-transportation","tag-rail","tag-railroads","tag-trains","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1vk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5786"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5786\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}