{"id":1669,"date":"2006-10-05T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/05\/why-i-was-over-an-hour-late-to-work-today\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:35","slug":"why-i-was-over-an-hour-late-to-work-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/10\/05\/why-i-was-over-an-hour-late-to-work-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Was Over An Hour Late to Work Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 6:45 a.m.,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View this morning apparently tried to &#8220;beat the train&#8221; at a grade crossing even as the arms were down, with lights blinking and bells ringing, a Caltrain spokesman said today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=3825\">Palo Alto Online News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the 12th fatality of 2006, including six suicides and one car accident. It&#8217;s really sobering. The body was still by the tracks when my train passed through at 8:20.<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand what could be so important that it merits ignoring obvious signs that a train is coming. The express trains don&#8217;t stop at all the stations, and they reach speeds of up to <em>80 miles per hour<\/em>. Don&#8217;t play with fate like that, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 6:45 a.m., A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a Caltrain in Mountain View this morning apparently tried to &#8220;beat the train&#8221; at a grade crossing even as the arms were down, with lights blinking and bells ringing, a Caltrain spokesman said today. Palo Alto Online News This was the 12th fatality of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12236,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/12236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}