{"id":65,"date":"2008-07-13T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-mardi-gras-of-railfanning-yes-really\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T22:08:00","slug":"the-mardi-gras-of-railfanning-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-mardi-gras-of-railfanning-yes-really\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mardi Gras of Railfanning (yes, really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtra071308av5_.jpg\" title=\"samtra071308av5_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtra071308av5_.jpg\" alt=\"samtra071308av5_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakmoon9_.jpg\" title=\"samtrakmoon9_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakmoon9_.jpg\" alt=\"samtrakmoon9_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakm1308av6_.jpg\" title=\"samtrakm1308av6_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakm1308av6_.jpg\" alt=\"samtrakm1308av6_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did that get your attention???<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonamtrak.org\" target=\"_blank\">yearly event<\/a> that has been getting more and more popular each year. But something happened that caused the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/crowds-boyne-year-2092361-police-event\" target=\"_blank\">police to shut it down<\/a> early this year. I honestly had no idea that it got this &#8216;interesting&#8217; until I saw these photos. Railfanning&#8217;s time has finally come &#8211; if mooning trains is what it takes to attract the women, then so be it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakmo08av2_.jpg\" title=\"samtrakmo08av2_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrakmo08av2_.jpg\" alt=\"samtrakmo08av2_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrag071308av3_.jpg\" title=\"samtrag071308av3_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/samtrag071308av3_.jpg\" alt=\"samtrag071308av3_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did that get your attention??? This is a yearly event that has been getting more and more popular each year. But something happened that caused the police to shut it down early this year. I honestly had no idea that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-mardi-gras-of-railfanning-yes-really\/\">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":[56],"tags":[60,59,58,57],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railfanning","tag-60","tag-amtrak","tag-moon","tag-mooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railfanwindow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}