{"id":2269,"date":"2005-09-27T09:27:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2008-05-01T06:59:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T10:59:35","slug":"no-cheers-for-via-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/no-cheers-for-via-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"no cheers for VIA Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The train journey back from Montreal last night <strong>should<\/strong> have taken about four hours, but it took nearer eight. Seems there was a derailment near Belleville, so we were sat on the train for three hours (just metres from Belleville station; had we known, we would have got out and walked somewhere). Then a bus came, and we got into Toronto about 1am.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect, given that the speed the bus went (187km in under two hours), he&#8217;d been told by VIA to get us in before 1:15, the cut-off time that would have given us an 100% refund. As is, I suspect we&#8217;ll only get 50%, as that&#8217;s the refund for up to four hours. Grr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The train journey back from Montreal last night should have taken about four hours, but it took nearer eight. Seems there was a derailment near Belleville, so we were sat on the train for three hours (just metres from Belleville station; had we known, we would have got out and walked somewhere). Then a bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1264,62,793],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-montreal","tag-rant","tag-train"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-AB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}