{"id":1914,"date":"2019-02-18T16:32:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:32:20","slug":"seamless-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"Seamless transportation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/greyhound-bus-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/greyhound-bus.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/greyhound-bus-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/greyhound-bus-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/greyhound-bus-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>                                                                                                                       <strong>  blogs.voanews.com photo<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Leave the driving to us&#8230;&#8221;  I was readin part of the book <em>A Century of Graphic Design<\/em> this morning.  In a section titled: <em>Design for Transportation<\/em>, it noted how one transportation company wanted to portray their mode of transportation as a &#8220;seamless and efficient system.&#8221;  My wife Liz, as a public relations consultant back in New Zealand, worked on a campaign to inspire more people to ride the bus to work, and so on.  The ad campaigns revolved around saving money, being more environmentally friendly, foregoing the hassles of parking&#8230;  It only worked, in part.  People, many people, are addicted to their automobiles.  That simple.  In fact, how many would seriously consider, even for a minute, taking, say, a Greyhound bus on vacation?  Not many.  <strong>New Green Deal<\/strong>, or not, we need a major paradigm shift when it comes to transportation in this country.  And our administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/transportation\">would have some cutting edge ideas&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Leave the driving to us&#8230;&#8221; I was readin part of the book A Century of Graphic Design this morning. In a section titled: Design for Transportation, it noted how one transportation company wanted to portray their mode of transportation as <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1914\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}