{"id":19143,"date":"2009-02-13T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/02\/13\/the-love-bus-also-known-as-metro-bus-route-number-308\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T10:00:01","slug":"the-love-bus-also-known-as-metro-bus-route-number-308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090213-01\/?p=19143","title":{"rendered":"The love bus, also known as Metro Bus Route number 308"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, Troy Kleweno spotted Christine Hsieh on <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.metrokc.gov\/cftemplates\/show_map.cfm?BUS_ROUTE=308&amp;DAY_NAV=W\"> the 308 bus<\/a>. He saw her twice a day, once in the morning on the way to work, and again in the evening on the way home. His co-workers teased him about the &#8220;bus girl&#8221; he pined after for six months before he finally <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004353134_webbusproposal16m.html\"> said hello<\/a>. That led to a date, and soon they were a couple.<\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s only fitting then that when Troy decided that  it was time to propose marriage, that he do it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrokc.gov\/kcdot\/news\/2008\/nr080416_lovebus.htm\"> on the 308 bus<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrokc.gov\/kcdot\/news\/videos\/2008\/041608_308proposal.htm\"> Watch it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, everybody. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, Troy Kleweno spotted Christine Hsieh on the 308 bus. He saw her twice a day, once in the morning on the way to work, and again in the evening on the way home. His co-workers teased him about the &#8220;bus girl&#8221; he pined after for six months before he finally said hello. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-19143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Four years ago, Troy Kleweno spotted Christine Hsieh on the 308 bus. He saw her twice a day, once in the morning on the way to work, and again in the evening on the way home. His co-workers teased him about the &#8220;bus girl&#8221; he pined after for six months before he finally said hello. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}