{"id":99,"date":"2020-03-04T01:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-03-04T01:49:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:49:41","slug":"the-bus-from-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/the-bus-from-kansas-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The bus from Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story is courtesy of Dave. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine you&#8217;re in Kansas City, and you need to get home to D.C. <\/p>\n<p>All you have is a Peter Pan voucher for any bus trip you like, and $10 in cash. <\/p>\n<p>You go to the station and notice there are two buses that will be leaving in 2 hours. One goes to D.C., the other goes to Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, you&#8217;re hungry, so you go into the station diner to get a bite. <\/p>\n<p>At one table there&#8217;s a man in an immaculate Peter Pan driver&#8217;s uniform. His pants are clean and pressed. His shirt is unwrinkled, and you wish you could tie a tie that well. He&#8217;s engaged in polite conversation with a diverse group of interesting, smiling people. His table manners are impeccable, and his hair is perfect. <\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re admiring this fellow, you hear some cursing from another table. You turn to see a scruffy looking rapscallion in the tattered remnants of a uniform. He&#8217;s speaking roughly to some poor young woman. You happen to notice that he&#8217;s also tweeting some inappropriate comments about his enemies. <\/p>\n<p>You stand there and wonder, which bus should I take? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is courtesy of Dave. Imagine you&#8217;re in Kansas City, and you need to get home to D.C. All you have is a Peter Pan voucher for any bus trip you like, and $10 in cash. You go to the station and notice there are two buses that will be leaving in 2 hours. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/the-bus-from-kansas-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The bus from Kansas City&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}