{"id":61072,"date":"2016-05-03T00:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=61072"},"modified":"2016-05-03T00:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:09:04","slug":"bus-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61072","title":{"rendered":"Bus Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBehold the beauty of Houston\u2019s Bus Lady, Janis Scott, who may singlehandedly boost public transportation with her bountiful enthusiasm for the humble city bus \u2026<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157097120?color=9086c0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Houston was in the midst of a big effort to redesign their bus system from scratch when Janis Scott appeared, as if by magic. It turns out she had been there, boosting bus morale behind the scenes, for years. Documentary filmmakers, out to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/160988232\"><u>movie about the rebirth of the city\u2019s public transportation<\/u><\/a>, decided to give Janis her own 4 minutes of fame in the flick above.<\/p>\n<p>Her smile and simply wonderful wisdom are arguably more persuasive than an entire city\u2019s propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s all types of reasons to ride the bus,\u201d Janis encourages. \u201cMake new friends, learn about things &#8230; you want to get people out of their cars and mix, mix, mix. That\u2019s true in any city. Try it, you\u2019ll like it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold the beauty of Houston\u2019s Bus Lady, Janis Scott, who may singlehandedly boost public transportation with her bountiful enthusiasm for the humble city bus \u2026 Houston was in the midst of a big effort to redesign their bus system from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving_back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}