{"id":447,"date":"2005-03-23T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-23T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2005-03-23T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T22:41:08","slug":"more-news-from-the-world-of-chinese-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/more-news-from-the-world-of-chinese-buses\/","title":{"rendered":"More news from the world of Chinese Buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2005\/03\/19\/passengers_tell_of_wild_bus_trip?mode=PF\">Boston Globe, March 19 2005<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p><I>A New York-to-Boston bus burst into flames on the Massachusetts Turnpike early yesterday, sending spectacular flames into the sky and capping what two passengers said was a harrowing trip after the driver ignored problems with the vehicle and continued to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Shitong Ou &#8212; the driver of the Travel Pack bus, based in Chinatown &#8212; pulled over before the toll booths in Allston-Brighton and ordered all passengers off. Seconds later, the vehicle burst into flames, shortly after 2 a.m., according to passengers and state officials.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was destroyed by the fire, which closed the eastbound Mass. Pike before the Allston-Brighton tolls for about an hour. Neither Ou nor his passengers, estimated at 10, were injured. Records show Ou had five moving violations last year.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe, March 19 2005 : A New York-to-Boston bus burst into flames on the Massachusetts Turnpike early yesterday, sending spectacular flames into the sky and capping what two passengers said was a harrowing trip after the driver ignored problems with the vehicle and continued to Boston. Shitong Ou &#8212; the driver of the Travel Pack bus, based in Chinatown &#8212; pulled over before the toll booths in Allston-Brighton and ordered all passengers off. Seconds later, the vehicle burst into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-chinatown-buses","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-7d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}