{"id":439,"date":"2012-03-21T23:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=439"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:46:00","slug":"making-a-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Making a List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Linda Burton posting from Phoenix, Arizona<\/em> &#8212; Making a list and checking it twice; so many choices. Tomorrow I\u2019m starting on Central Avenue, the route of the train. The Valley Metro light rail, that is. The station is a block away, the fare for a ride is $.85 for a senior (I can get a 7-day pass too). I\u2019ll buy my ticket from a machine right there at the station via credit card (remember the Olden Days when you had to have tokens for public transportation?). According to the online Route Planner, I will reduce carbon emissions by 0.748 lbs by riding the train. If I drove my car I would burn 1.109 lbs of CO2. Not to mention what I\u2019d spend for gas and parking!<\/p>\n<p>Check it out. Valley Metro Light rail. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleymetro.org\/\">http:\/\/www.valleymetro.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will take me four minutes to get to the Heard Museum at 2301 N Central. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heard.org\/\">http:\/\/www.heard.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell about my visit in another post; two things I\u2019m interested in are an exhibit on Native American Bolo Ties (Arizona\u2019s official state neckwear), and Beyond Geronimo: The Apache Experience, which presents a more accurate view of this celebrated personality than the sensationalized stories that have circulated for years.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Art Museum, also on N Central at 1625, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phxart.org\/\">http:\/\/www.phxart.org\/<\/a> has an exhibit entitled \u201cFrank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century.\u201d Wright\u2019s architecture focused on the concepts of energy, materials, climate, transportation, and urban planning. \u00a0It\u2019s also on my list.<\/p>\n<p>So many choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Burton posting from Phoenix, Arizona &#8212; Making a list and checking it twice; so many choices. Tomorrow I\u2019m starting on Central Avenue, the route of the train. The Valley Metro light rail, that is. The station is a block away, the fare for a ride is $.85 for a senior (I can get a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4586,64],"tags":[85,87,88,86,83,82,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27204,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/27204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}