{"id":3426,"date":"2005-07-15T17:16:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T00:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/everything-old-is-new-again\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T18:22:13","slug":"everything-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/07\/15\/everything-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything old is new again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7936,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/krobbie67\\\/25440108&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/krobbie67\\\/25440108&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7937,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.historylink.org\\\/essays\\\/output.cfm?file_id=2707&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080419052954\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.historylink.org:80\\\/essays\\\/output.cfm?file_id=2707&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:08:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:08:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7938,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.soundtransit.org\\\/projects\\\/svc\\\/link&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7939,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2005\\\/TECH\\\/07\\\/15\\\/seattle.monorail.ap\\\/index.html?section=cnn_mostpopular&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2005\\\/TECH\\\/07\\\/15\\\/seattle.monorail.ap\\\/index.html?section=cnn_mostpopular&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7940,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Flag_of_Seattle&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260121223509\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Flag_of_Seattle&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:08:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:08:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A random comment on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/krobbie67\/25440108\/\" title=\"Flickr: Seattle Trolley\">Flickr photo<\/a> led me to do some digging, and after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historylink.org\/essays\/output.cfm?file_id=2707\" title=\"HistoryLink Essay: Street Railways in Seattle -- A Snapshot History\">this summary of Seattle transportation efforts<\/a>, all of a sudden it&#8217;s no surprise that we&#8217;ve seen such ridiculous controversy over our (finally under construction) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtransit.org\/projects\/svc\/link\/\" title=\"Sound Transit: Link Light Rail Projects\">light rail<\/a> and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/07\/15\/seattle.monorail.ap\/index.html?section=cnn_mostpopular\" title=\"CNN: Seattle's monorail loses its shine\">eternally beleaguered<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Seattle\" title=\"Wikipedia: Flag of Seattle\">monorail<\/a> plans.<\/p>\n<p>The essay is replete with examples of ideas, controversy, failed starts, cost overruns, tax packages&#8230;any of this sound familiar? From the look of it, it&#8217;s amazing that Seattle has anything at all to support those of us who &#8212; for whatever reason &#8212; eschew automobiles for other forms of transportation.<\/p>\n<p>Completely randomly, another discovery I made: did you know that Seattle has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Seattle\" title=\"Wikipedia: Flag of Seattle\">its own flag<\/a>? I didn&#8217;t, and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen it flying anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A random comment on a Flickr photo led me to do some digging, and after reading a summary of Seattle transportation efforts, all of a sudden it&#8217;s no surprise that we&#8217;ve seen such ridiculous controversy over our  light rail and monorail plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}