{"id":259,"date":"2018-09-01T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/langa.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2018-09-01T15:53:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T19:53:46","slug":"one-of-the-first-subways-in-the-world-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/one-of-the-first-subways-in-the-world-too\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the first subways in the world, too&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"260\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/01\/one-of-the-first-subways-in-the-world-too\/screenshot_20180901-154619_twitter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?fit=1080%2C2220&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,2220\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?fit=498%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?resize=498%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?resize=498%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 498w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?resize=146%2C300&amp;ssl=1 146w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?resize=768%2C1579&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/langa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Screenshot_20180901-154619_Twitter.jpg?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArchivesBoston\/status\/1035911437611360257?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArchivesBoston\/status\/1035911437611360257?s=19<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArchivesBoston\/status\/1035911437611360257?s=19 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-boston"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaiox-4b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1966,"url":"https:\/\/langa.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/10\/around-boston-the-nearly-snowless-winter-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":0},"title":"Around Boston: The nearly snowless winter continues","author":"Fred Langa","date":"2019-02-10","format":false,"excerpt":"Boston, seen recently from Waitt's Mount Boston's 2018-19 winter has been warmer and wetter than normal. 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