{"id":3861,"date":"2010-05-23T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2010-05-23T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:41:38","slug":"jinxed-train-or-jinxed-by-standers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/jinxed-train-or-jinxed-by-standers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinxed train? Or jinxed by-standers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak train #63 claimed two lives in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2010\/05\/23\/same-train-hits-two-people-in-nine-hours\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">separate incidents yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Amtrak train struck two people within a space of roughly nine hours, including a man in Toronto, who was killed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a man was walking on the tracks in Toronto, near Lake Shore Boulevard and Dunn Avenue, when he was hit and killed in the early morning.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>About nine hours earlier, as the train made its way from New York City to Toronto, it had struck a woman on the Niagara Bridge in Buffalo. She also died, Ms. Connell said, but officials were still trying to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not to be too snarky, but being hit by a train generally provides sufficient kinetic energy to kill people unfortunate enough to be in the way . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak train #63 claimed two lives in separate incidents yesterday: The Amtrak train struck two people within a space of roughly nine hours, including a man in Toronto, who was killed on Saturday. Police say a man was walking on the tracks in Toronto, near Lake Shore Boulevard and Dunn Avenue, when he was hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,237,13],"tags":[560],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-railways","category-usa","tag-amtrak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-10h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3862,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}