{"id":573,"date":"2008-09-19T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:40:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-19T19:40:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T00:40:37","slug":"necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another unfortunate accident occured on the LA Metro this morning (maybe Tom Leykis is going to switch from flash fridays to crash fridays).  In an article about the crash I found these interesting statistics:<\/p>\n<p>The accident rate for freeways in 2007 was 1.09 per million miles driven.<\/p>\n<p>The accident rate for the Blue Line in FY08 was 17.1 per million miles operated.<\/p>\n<p>The fatality rate for streets in 2007 0.012 per million miles driven.<\/p>\n<p>The fatality rates for the Blue Line in FY08 was 1.77 per million miles operated.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting because only recently I&#8217;ve started using the Metro system to get around when I can (I never drive to downtown anymore).  Maybe I should stop.<\/p>\n<p>Justin and I broke in his birthday chess board last night.  We are deadlocked at 1-1.  The first game I didn&#8217;t remember all the rules&#8230; and the second I think he was under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another unfortunate accident occured on the LA Metro this morning (maybe Tom Leykis is going to switch from flash fridays to crash fridays). In an article about the crash I found these interesting statistics: The accident rate for freeways in 2007 was 1.09 per million miles driven. The accident rate for the Blue Line in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}