{"id":1705,"date":"2009-07-10T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:12:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:12:54","slug":"any-okies-want-to-moon-amtrak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Any Okies want to Moon Amtrak?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/amtraktrainbanner.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356917263858053938\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 157px; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/amtraktrainbanner-300x117.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> It is the little surprises in life that make it interesting. The things you don&#8217;t expect. I was going through the Wall Street Journal reading all about how ole Obama is ruining the country and the AIG execs are wanting their retention bonuses (Retention!? Darn let&#8217;em go I say. I could go to the plasma center and find people who could lose as much money as AIG has just on the execs regular salaries.) Oh, yeah sorry. Anyway I found out that in California there is a sport called &#8220;Amtrak Mooning.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">No lie!! It is absolutely true. It even has its own <a href=\"http:\/\/moonamtrak.org\/\">web site<\/a>. (Note family safe link &#8211; there are lots of non family safe links if you want to Google or Bing &#8220;Amtrack mooning.&#8221;) They have been doing it for 30 years. It is done once a year in Laguna Niguel, California. You show up and when an Amtrak train comes by you moon it. The local tracks have 38 passenger trains a day starting at 7:35 in the morning and ending at 11:22 pm. So there is lots of opportunities. Thousands of people show up. They moon trains, they drink, moon some more.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">You better hurry though. This year&#8217;s is tomorrow. So better get your tickets and head to the airport. Also, the town is hard to get to. The authorities suggest that you &#8220;Take the train.&#8221; Wow, moon and get mooned. Same day. A nice rhythmn, &#8220;moon in, moon, moon out.&#8221; Kind of like &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, be happy.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Be aware though, the local powers to be are threatening to be out in force and try to stop this event. It is a threat to public safety they say! I think Obama is behind the ban. Another attack on our way of life! Our traditional values and sacred rights! Are we Americans going to put up with this?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Note: Photo courtesy of Amtrak.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the little surprises in life that make it interesting. The things you don&#8217;t expect. I was going through the Wall Street Journal reading all about how ole Obama is ruining the country and the AIG execs are wanting their retention bonuses (Retention!? Darn let&#8217;em go I say. I could go to the plasma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,772,58,751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-diversions","category-life","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}