{"id":36522,"date":"2021-09-14T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36522"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:37:34","slug":"still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/still-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Regional Railway Punk Rocker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/49601473143\/in\/album-72157713309890457\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49601473143_edea819599_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Regional Railway Punk Rocker\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>This is another digital picture that I shot more than a decade ago, and another situation where I was waiting for a train. I used to rely on SEPTA&#8217;s regional railway to get to work. This was before the price and the delays became more than I could bear. Wet leaves on the tracks are a common excuse for tardiness. There was also the pleasure of sharing a car with the joyless commuters who personally enforced the rules of <em>The Quiet Car. <\/em>I switched to the subway and bus lines which are far from perfect, but preferable to the regional rail.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pat Benatar, Junior <\/em>pictured above was probably headed back home to the suburbs after taking in some urban verisimilitude. She probably went to South Street &#8212; <em>the hippest street in town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I shot this back in March 18, 2010 which doesn&#8217;t seem like a long time ago, but it feels like a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another digital picture that I shot more than a decade ago, and another situation where I was waiting for a train. I used to rely on SEPTA&#8217;s regional railway to get to work. This was before the price &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/still-waiting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,104,2093],"tags":[5152,354,3669,5154,5153,79],"class_list":["post-36522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-commuting","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-5152","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-punk-rock-girl","tag-regional-rail","tag-septa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9v4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43816,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/09\/24\/this-means-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":36522,"position":0},"title":"This Means You!","author":"Joe","date":"September 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A well worn sign at the Fernwood -Yeadon stop on the regional rail line in Pennsylvania.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Adventures in Commuting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Adventures in Commuting","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/adventures-in-commuting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"This means you!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54014390028_3fc57a8b07_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54014390028_3fc57a8b07_c.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54014390028_3fc57a8b07_c.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54014390028_3fc57a8b07_c.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10303,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/11\/05\/it-came-from-the-sketchbook-the-brush\/","url_meta":{"origin":36522,"position":1},"title":"It Came From the Sketchbook &#8211; The Brush","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"November 5, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This was a guy I saw a few too many times during my commute when I would take SEPTA's regional rail line. 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