{"id":155,"date":"2005-02-10T23:15:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T06:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2019-01-09T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:18:01","slug":"of-course-its-unavoidable-there-is-a-train-ahead-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/10\/of-course-its-unavoidable-there-is-a-train-ahead-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course It&#8217;s Unavoidable &#8211; There Is A Train Ahead Of Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you travel in the newer subway cars, you are &#8220;treated&#8221; to hearing an electronic voice talking to you all the time. Like the voicemail woman who welcomes me to Audix (thanks sweetheart). Once in a while you&#8217;ll hear a conductor break in and correct the computer &#8211; &#8220;Next stop is City Hall! City Hall next stop! We are nowhere near the Bronx &#8211; this is why people drive the trains!&#8221; &#8211; and I live for those moments.<\/p>\n<p>The one electronic statement that bothers me the most is when, after not moving for a few minutes, Transmit Woman breaks in and says &#8220;We apologize for the unavoidable delay.&#8221; OF COURSE ITS UNAVOIDABLE!! We are on a track! It&#8217;s not like we can go around it. What genius thought that one up?<\/p>\n<p>This has <em>always<\/em> bothered me and guess what, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/thepoliticker\/2005\/02\/avoidable.html\">it&#8217;s going away.<\/a> The MTA has announced that it is removing &#8220;unavoidable&#8221; from that statement. Yay. One less thing to get aggravated over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you travel in the newer subway cars, you are &#8220;treated&#8221; to hearing an electronic voice talking to you all the time. Like the voicemail woman who welcomes me to Audix (thanks sweetheart). Once in a while you&#8217;ll hear a conductor break in and correct the computer &#8211; &#8220;Next stop is City Hall! City Hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[455,654],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-nyc","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}