{"id":167,"date":"2004-12-16T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/free-metro-rides\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:29:26","slug":"free-metro-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/free-metro-rides\/","title":{"rendered":"FREE metro rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was heading downtown for a morning meeting this week and took the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmata.com\/\">Washington, DC metro<\/a>.&nbsp; The turn styles were open and there was a bit of confusion. Seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/home.ingdirect.com\/\">ING Direct<\/a> picked up the tab for the morning commute (the 5:30a-9:30a shift).<\/p>\n<p>As you departed the station, there were people greeters with ING direct marketing pieces waiting for you.&nbsp; I also saw promotions in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crablogs.com\/\">Baltimore, Md<\/a>. but not sure about the free train rides there&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is Metro&#8217;s attempt to make the Washington, DC system more &#8216;rider friendly&#8217;? I wonder what the <em>metrics for success<\/em> are with a promotion like this? In any event, a nice touch.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was heading downtown for a morning meeting this week and took the Washington, DC metro.&nbsp; The turn styles were open and there was a bit of confusion. Seems that ING Direct picked up the tab for the morning commute (the 5:30a-9:30a shift). As you departed the station, there were people greeters with ING direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-this-and-that","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}