{"id":667,"date":"2001-09-04T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2001-09-04T18:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=667"},"modified":"2001-09-04T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2001-09-04T18:05:17","slug":"blogvision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/04\/blogvision.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogvision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Blogvision<\/b><\/p>\n<p>An expansion of the theme below (i.e., from earlier today) on how having a blog has an impact on things.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving off to my golf game on Saturday, and I noticed myself &#8230; noticing things.  <i>Hmmm. Light rail &#8212; that&#8217;s neat.  Gotta write about that.  Oh, look, folks queued up at the light rail station to go to the game.  Hah &#8212; idiots!  Y&#8217;know, they don&#8217;t have gravel igloos like CDOT has here back in Southern California &#8212; I remember how amused I was when I first saw them.  I should share that.  Gotta talk about my ring finger some time, too.  <\/i>And so forth.<\/p>\n<p>They say that the best way to learn to write is to write.  When you are going to write, it makes you think about writing.  When you&#8217;re going to be blogging observations about the world about oneself, it makes you observe said world.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we need to encourage more politicians to blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogvision An expansion of the theme below (i.e., from earlier today) on how having a blog has an impact on things. I was driving off to my golf game on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41391,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/ugh-light-rail-problems-at-br.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":0},"title":"Ugh. Light rail problems at Br&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Mar-14 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugh. Light rail problems at Broadway Stn. Bad day to be out waiting for a train. #ltr","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/12\/light-rail-and-lyft.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":1},"title":"Light Rail and Lyft","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 12-Aug-16 2:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting experiment here in the South Metro Denver area -- free Lyft rides to\/from the local light rail station, to encourage people to use that as an option rather than (a) drive, or (b) take the light rail and then (assuming one has reserved it in advance) using the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":679,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/01\/riding_the_rail.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":2},"title":"Riding the rails","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Sep-01 7:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Denver has light rail. There are a lot of people who pooh-pooh this. Some of them think we should expand our bus fleet. Others think rapid transit is a goofy...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27517,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/light-rail-still-requires-automobiles-you-know.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":3},"title":"Light rail still requires automobiles, you know","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Apr-12 10:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"This strikes me as very shortsighted, given that, even with a much larger distribution of parking lots on the existing LTR lines in Denver that there are consistent complaints about insufficient parking. Not only will a lack of adequate parking cause neighborhood problems, but it will, I assure you, reduce\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/older_n_some_folk_i_know.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":4},"title":"Older &#8216;n some folk I know","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Jun-08 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's my 22 Year Adjusted Service Date Day at my company. Woo-hoo! I think this means they give me an EcoPass for the light rail or something ......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10156,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/22\/t_rex_extinct.html","url_meta":{"origin":667,"position":5},"title":"T-Rex Extinct","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Aug-06 7:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Woot! The T-REX project along I-25 is officially over. I'm sure it will fill up with traffic soon enough, but it was worth it for the realignment at the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/trex.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}