{"id":358,"date":"2008-03-10T20:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?page_id=358"},"modified":"2009-02-15T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T23:34:23","slug":"king-county-metro-bus-widget","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?page_id=358","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Bus Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em\"><a title=\"download widget\" href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/widgets\/king-county-metro-bus-tracker\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/kingcountymetrotracker.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"King County Metro Tracker widget\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/widgets\/king-county-metro-bus-tracker\/\">Download<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I've written a Yahoo! widget that lets you watch buses arriving at a specific stop in Seattle and throughout King County Metro.  This widget gives you a more focused view into the same data available on Metro's <a href=\"http:\/\/tracker-loc.metrokc.gov\/\">Tracker Location View<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n<p>After installing the widget, you use the Widget Preferences pop-up to choose a location to watch, and optionally limit the buses and destinations.  You can also customize the text &amp; background colors for buses running on-time, late, or early.<\/p>\n<p>King County Metro tracks the location of all it's buses.  The widget gets real-time data from a web service provided by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.washington.edu\/its_ws.html\">Univ of Washington ITS Research project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had been using the <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/widgets\/seattle-mybus-watcher\/\">Seattle MyBus Watcher<\/a> widget, but that stopped working when Yahoo! released the latest Widgets 4.5 environment in early 2008.  I'd had some minor complaints about that widget, and since it no longer worked, I decided to write my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download I've written a Yahoo! widget that lets you watch buses arriving at a specific stop in Seattle and throughout King County Metro. This widget gives you a more focused view into the same data available on Metro's Tracker Location View web page. After installing <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?page_id=358\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-358","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/358\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}