{"id":5421,"date":"2008-11-20T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2008-11-20T18:06:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T23:06:22","slug":"the-one-opens-metros-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"The One Opens Metro&#8217;s Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008_1120_obamasmartrip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5420 aligncenter\" title=\"2008_1120_obamasmartrip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008_1120_obamasmartrip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008_1120_obamasmartrip.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/2008_1120_obamasmartrip-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t see enough of Obama&#8217;s face these days, so the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is putting his mug on a fare card available in early January according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2008\/11\/20\/preview_of_special_obama_inaugratio.php\" target=\"_blank\">DCist<\/a>. Funny, but I don&#8217;t remember seeing any commemoration fare card for anyone else. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>I expect passing through the turnstiles at the subway stations will take longer as holders of the card pause to genuflect when they pull The One&#8217;s visage from their wallets to swipe the sensors.<\/p>\n<p>I sure hope my card doesn&#8217;t crap out next month and they force this one on me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Currently, Metro plans to sell them for $10 per card, with no value added to the card at the time of initial purchase, which would make them $5 more expensive than regular SmarTrip cards. They may also be hard to come by, as Metro will only have an initial order of 35,000 on hand to begin with, though Taubenkibel said the agency hopes to have more available as time permits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So they&#8217;ll immediately be targeted by thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t see enough of Obama&#8217;s face these days, so the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority &hellip; <a title=\"The One Opens Metro&#8217;s Doors\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5421\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The One Opens Metro&#8217;s Doors<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}