{"id":26387,"date":"2020-06-22T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26387"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:13:40","slug":"goodbye-magic-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/22\/goodbye-magic-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Magic Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsminer.com\/news\/local_news\/state-workers-move-stampede-trail-magic-bus\/article_c4fdea54-b1b5-11ea-b7b5-27f1db6cc981.html?fbclid=IwAR1uAkcoa2HzGFgd7RmMzxcSVGNeRGJpdq17RYSeHWRWA_YOXbwbz7z35_8#utm_campaign=blox&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Out of the Wild: State moves Stampede Trail &#8216;magic bus&#8217;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The state of Alaska moved a notorious tourist attraction \u2014 often known just as &#8220;the bus&#8221; \u2014 from the Stampede Trail on the west side of the Teklanika River on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The bus has long been a destination for pilgrims enamored with the book and subsequent movie \u201cInto The Wild.\u201d Some people have died making that journey to the bus. The Alaska Department of Natural Resources called it a \u201cdeadly attraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter studying the issue closely, prioritizing public safety and considering a variety of alternatives, we decided it was best to remove the bus from its location on the Stampede Trail,\u201d Commissioner Corri A. Feige said in a press release. \u201cWe\u2019re fortunate the Alaska Army National Guard could do the job as a training mission to practice airlifting vehicles, at no cost to the public or additional cost to the state.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you might know, gentle reader, I hated <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/book-report-into-the-wild-by-jon-krakauer-1996\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">that book<\/a> when I read it last year.<\/p>\n<p>Weird, huh, with all the statues toppled that anger me, and I see this symbol removed and think, &#8220;Good riddance to bad rubbish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Because I&#8217;m a hypocrite.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of the Wild: State moves Stampede Trail &#8216;magic bus&#8217;: The state of Alaska moved a notorious tourist attraction \u2014 often known just as &#8220;the bus&#8221; \u2014 from the Stampede Trail on the west side of the Teklanika River on Thursday. The bus has long been a destination for pilgrims enamored with the book and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26388,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}