{"id":657,"date":"2006-08-23T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2006-08-23T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T09:39:30","slug":"logic_what_logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/23\/logic_what_logic\/","title":{"rendered":"Logic? What Logic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get a kick out of UTA (that’s the Utah Transit Authority<\/a> for you out-of-towners). After observing their actions on a more-or-less daily basis for just over a year — I’ve been riding Salt Lake’s light-rail system to work throughout that time — I can only conclude that some evil genius has used his psychotronic disassociation ray to reverse the polarity of the organization’s institutional brain, so that every decision it makes is exactly the opposite of what it ought to be. Case in point: all summer long, the trains have been running with four cars during the morning rush hour, and they’ve been far below capacity. Plenty of seating for all the downtown cubicle-monkeys like myself. Now, today, classes are back in session at the University of Utah<\/a> and a whole bunch of new riders are using this nifty light-rail system to get to campus… and for some reason the trains have dropped one car. Which means all the unwashed masses were cozier than flakes of dolphin-free tuna in light oil this morning.<\/p>\n

So, let’s review: summertime, fewer riders, lots of cars; schooltime, more riders, fewer cars. Can anyone explain the logic process here? Anyone? Anyone at all? Yeah, that’s what I thought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I get a kick out of UTA (that’s the Utah Transit Authority for you out-of-towners). After observing their actions on a more-or-less daily basis for just over a year — I’ve been riding Salt Lake’s light-rail system to work throughout that time — I can only conclude that some evil genius has used his psychotronic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gripes-and-grumbles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}