{"id":15834,"date":"2016-06-30T05:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:43:16","slug":"boston-green-line-deja-vu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/boston-green-line-deja-vu\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Green Line D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu."},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long interval (33 years), I took a spin out the full length of MBTA\u2019s Commonwealth Avenue Line.<\/p>\n

On this most recent trip, my father and I rode from Park Street to the end of the line, made a few photos and returned to Copley.<\/p>\n

The trip was longer than I remember; did the trolleys always crawl along the way they do now?<\/p>\n

Here are two views from the front of the cars, exposed 33 years and a couple of blocks apart.<\/p>\n

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View from the front of a Boeing-Vertol LRV on June 19, 1983. Exposed on Ektachrome using a Leica 3A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View at Boston College on June 25, 2016. Exposed using a Lumix LX7.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hmm.<\/p>\n

Today, Tracking the Light Looks Back!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long interval (33 years), I took a spin out the full length of MBTA\u2019s Commonwealth Avenue Line. On this most recent trip, my father and I rode from Park Street to the end of the line, made a few photos and returned to Copley. The trip was longer than I remember; did the … Continue reading Boston Green Line D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[678,1519,7535,611,790],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/MBTA_Greenline_view_from_Trolley_P1480404.jpg?fit=2309%2C1732","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-47o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15884,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15834\/revisions\/15884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}