{"id":503851,"date":"2026-06-28T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/a-festive-pre-christmas-chase-with-an-old-friend\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:58:00","slug":"a-festive-pre-christmas-chase-with-an-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/a-festive-pre-christmas-chase-with-an-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"A festive pre-Christmas chase with an old friend&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, on the eve of Christmas Eve (is there a fancy word for that day?), my childhood friend Daniel texted me letting me know that he was getting ready to work a local round trip from Taylor, TX to Smithville, TX (UP&#8217;s LAW51). He&#8217;s been a UP conductor for a few years now (<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trainorders.com\/discussion\/read.php?1,6117496,nodelay=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.trainorders.com\/discussion\/read.php?1,6117496,nodelay=1<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday morning, on the eve of Christmas Eve (is there a fancy word for that day?), my childhood friend Daniel texted me letting me know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}