{"id":103,"date":"2002-04-09T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-09T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2002\/4\/bad_things_happen_in_threes.html"},"modified":"2002-04-09T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-09T08:40:00","slug":"bad_things_happen_in_threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2002\/04\/09\/bad_things_happen_in_threes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad things happen in threes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning, standing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitchicago.com\" title=\"the CTA\" target=\"_blank\">el platform<\/a> at Belmont Ave, waiting for a Red Line train, I heard the following announcement:  <\/p>\n<p><i>Attention Northbound CTA riders.  Due to an emergency at Addison, there will be no further northbound train service.  Shuttle buses will be available to take you to Wilson.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>and then, a few seconds later:<\/p>\n<p><I>Attention <b>South<\/b>bound CTA riders.  Due to an emergency at Addison, no further southbound trains will run through this station.  I repeat, this is the <b>last<\/b> train until further notice.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p>So we all got on the Brown Line train and I got to work at about 9:30.  Upon arrival, I heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-0204090121apr09.story?coll=chi%2Dnewslocal%2Dhed\" title=\"man hit by CTA bus\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-020409train-story.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed\" title=\"man hit by METRA train\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Guess the RTA is having a bad day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning, standing on the el platform at Belmont Ave, waiting for a Red Line train, I heard the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}