{"id":508,"date":"2003-12-10T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2003-12-10T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=508"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:32","slug":"end_of_the_line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/10\/end_of_the_line\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the line."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve been there.  You&#8217;re on a train and, as it pulls in to your stop, the announcer says, &#8220;This train is out of service.  All passengers must leave the train.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered what happens if you <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> leave the train?  Where it goes, or what the people who are on it do when they get there (or are enroute to there)?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, Joe?  I could really use a break.  How about you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, let&#8217;s put &#8216;er out of service&#8230;there.  Now, you grab the cards, I&#8217;ll get the bottle and glasses and &#8211; hey, look!  Somebody who didn&#8217;t get off.  Just in time for my medical finals too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I really doubt that&#8217;s what happens.  But these things always do go through my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve been there. You&#8217;re on a train and, as it pulls in to your stop, the announcer says, &#8220;This train is out of service. All passengers must leave the train.&#8221; Have you ever wondered what happens if you don&#8217;t leave the train? Where it goes, or what the people who are on it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/10\/end_of_the_line\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;End of the line.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}