{"id":6434,"date":"2015-02-03T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2015-02-03T02:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T10:26:52","slug":"walking-21-miles-a-day-to-work-without-a-car-james-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/walking-21-miles-a-day-to-work-without-a-car-james-robertson\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking 21 Miles A Day To Work Without A Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an inspiring story this was about a man named James Robertson who commutes to work each day for 23 miles. 21 miles of the commute is walking as a result of the lack of public transit available to where he needs to get to. Based on what I read, he has been doing this for over ten years. You can watch a video of it below:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mOiQgErWMCw\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A crowdfunding campaign was started because of this at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/l7girc\">http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/l7girc<\/a> where the hope was to raise enough money to get him a car. It wasn\u2019t even Robertson himself who started this as he simply goes on without complaining. The campaign has exceed its initial goal of $5000 and was over $130,000 when I last saw it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/walking-21-miles-a-day-to-work-without-a-car-james-robertson\/jamesroberston\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"954,418\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;windows&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1422929387&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jamesroberston\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;James Robertson gofundme&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston-300x131.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston.jpg\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6435\" src=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston.jpg\" alt=\"jamesroberston\" width=\"500\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston-155x68.jpg 155w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jamesroberston-950x416.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While you could argue that walking that far is silly such as how he could try and move closer to his job or use things like a bicycle, the main point out of this was how if you have the will there is a way. Like here he could have been someone that just complains he needs financial assistance or else it is impossible to make a living. Instead, he just does it without complaining. It\u2019s nice to see that the hard work and commitment is going to pay off now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an inspiring story this was about a man named James Robertson who commutes to work each day for 23 miles. 21 miles of the commute is walking as a result of the lack of public transit available to where he needs to get to. Based on what I read, he has been doing this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[916,2951,35,5468,21,5469,68],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-management","tag-car","tag-commute","tag-finance","tag-james-robertson","tag-money","tag-walking-21-miles","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/HNCK3323-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1FM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6442,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}