{"id":319,"date":"2011-09-24T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/2011\/09\/24\/trivial-pursuit\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T11:42:00","slug":"trivial-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/2011\/09\/24\/trivial-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivial Pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">A bit of destination trivia as the band heads to Boston.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBTefQO2z6s\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Members under 50 (or 60) may not know &#8216;MTA&#8217;, a hit for The Kingston Trio in the early 60s.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Written as a (humorous) protest song in response to the raising of Boston&#8217;s subway fares the song tells the pitiful story of Charlie&#8217;s last (and lasting) ride on the subway (called the T in Boston)&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Cities with large subway systems tend to name their electronic fare cards, Orca (Seattle), Clipper (San Francisco), Oyster (London) so on and so forth.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Bostonians chose the best name of all, the Charlie Card. You just have to love a city with a sense of humour like that.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of destination trivia as the band heads to Boston. Members under 50 (or 60) may not know &#8216;MTA&#8217;, a hit for The Kingston Trio in the early 60s. Written as a (humorous) protest song in response to the raising of Boston&#8217;s subway fares the song tells the pitiful story of Charlie&#8217;s last (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thecarnivalband.com\/carnivalband\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}