{"id":519146,"date":"2010-04-07T11:30:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gas2.org\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:30:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T15:30:41","slug":"%e2%80%9cextreme-commuters%e2%80%9d-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519146","title":{"rendered":"\u201cExtreme Commuters\u201d On The Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6654\" title=\"commute\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/gas2\/files\/2010\/04\/commute.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do not enjoy commuting, which is why I don&#8217;t do it. Here in Connecticut we have terrible traffic&#8230; pretty much every day, despite my state being so far spread out. Actually, that is the problem. Most people have relatively long commutes for such a small state, and since there are only a few highways, they get clogged rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p>But to commute an hour and a half or more to and from work every day? That seems insane&#8230; and yet, according to one study, almost 3.5 million Americans are doing this every week, a number that has almost doubled in the past twenty years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gas2.org\/2010\/04\/07\/extreme-commuters-on-the-rise\/#more-6647\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?i=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?a=Z4rPwMWzxDY:YwU2oJdoVd4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gas2\/org?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gas2\/org\/~4\/Z4rPwMWzxDY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not enjoy commuting, which is why I don&#8217;t do it. Here in Connecticut we have terrible traffic&#8230; pretty much every day, despite my state being so far spread out. Actually, that is the problem. Most people have relatively long commutes for such a small state, and since there are only a few highways, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}