{"id":7200,"date":"2018-06-01T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/06\/01\/a-moment-for-pause\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T03:35:04","slug":"a-moment-for-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2018\/06\/01\/a-moment-for-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment for Pause\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Location: Looking west down Lake Street from Snelling Avenue (1:30PM)<\/p>\n

I have always loved the \u2018real\u2019 trains. I love that it forces you to stop in your cars as it slowly makes its way\u2026where, I wonder? Really, when you run up on one of these, it\u2019s not something that you can dispute; it\u2019s not someone driving slowly and missing a light \u2013 it\u2019s not a traffic jam during rush hour (indeed, this was 1:30 in the afternoon), it\u2019s just a moment where if the train is a bigger one, and you are lucky enough, you get to turn your car off and sit and be quiet. I\u2019ve always enjoyed these stops. My mother, who were she still around would be 90, always talked about hopping trains when she was a teenager. She and Aunt Rosie hopped once, and then couldn\u2019t figure out how to get back off and ended up far enough a way that Grandpa had to go collect them. That didn\u2019t go over well. She admitted she continue to hop the train, but only to get off on the other side (this of course, is not encouraged). I always think about this when I see a train. Where would I end up if I hopped?<\/p>\n

I see these beautiful, old relics as symbols of our neighborhood; imagery of where we came from and how this neighborhood came to be. Imagery to hold onto and reflect on, while you sit in your car, waiting.<\/p>\n

Photo: Jean Des Marais<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trains take their time while autos wait. Photo: Jean Des Marais <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[545,674,1393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}