{"id":1135,"date":"2023-03-31T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2024-03-24T08:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T12:21:49","slug":"last-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Last &#038; First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Images from 2022&#8217;s final Domingo. After a summer heat wave postponement, the weather for this one was a bit cold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-02-49-21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" data-id=\"1136\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-02-49-21-160x140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1136\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-02-55-14.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" data-id=\"1137\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-02-55-14-160x140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1137\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-03-01-51.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"140\" data-id=\"1138\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Frame-02-04-2023-03-01-51-160x140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1138\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2023 stayed cold, with snow into March. But towards the ides, the first sign of spring &#8211; our friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2263-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, March 31. The last day of free bus fares, Toro rides the Fastrak:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/IMG_2271-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you live in CT and would like to comment on the end of free bus fares, feel free to fill out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/KC9CD5Z\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/KC9CD5Z\">this survey<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free fares were supported by federal COVID funds, but going forward the state would have to foot the bill. While I&#8217;d personally love to see them continue, my overwhelming impression is that the majority of Connecticans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>own cars<\/li><li>blanch at the idea of riding a bus<\/li><li>have zero empathy for those who do<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So continuing the program for now seems like a long shot. But hope springs eternal, and like the season, I suspect it will come around eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images from 2022&#8217;s final Domingo. After a summer heat wave postponement, the weather for this one was a bit cold: 2023 stayed cold, with snow into March. But towards the ides, the first sign of spring &#8211; our friends: Finally, March 31. The last day of free bus fares, Toro rides the Fastrak: If you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/?p=1135\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last &#038; First<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htfdcycle.telharmonia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}