{"id":1891,"date":"2018-07-10T19:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2018-09-09T21:22:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T02:22:51","slug":"amish-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Amish Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Amish Uber<\/p>\n<p>An Amish Dad in Michigan has decided to join the rideshare economy, with his horse and buggy. According to\u00a0WWMT, Tim Hochstedler has started offering taxi rides around his hometown of Colon in his horse-drawn carriage, which he has dubbed the &#8220;Amish Uber.&#8221; Horse and Buggy Rides are only $5, so this is way cheaper than most Uber rides, but there is a pretty big catch: You will have to flag him down on the street if you want a lift, since he is not using the Uber app.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1894\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/?attachment_id=1894\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1894\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1894\" src=\"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/8E05D32E-C544-4B73-A2D8-85566B3F7FB0-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"Amish Horse and Buggy Uber\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amish Horse and Buggy Uber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Oxford Dictionary, the proverb \u201cNecessity is the mother of invention\u201d simply means that, \u201cWhen the need for something becomes imperative, one is determined to find ways of achieving it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SmartNews<br \/>\nAcademy Science<br \/>\nFLL Animal Allies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Amish Uber An Amish Dad in Michigan has decided to join the rideshare economy, with his horse and buggy. According to\u00a0WWMT, Tim Hochstedler has started offering taxi rides around his hometown of Colon in his horse-drawn carriage, which he has dubbed the &#8220;Amish Uber.&#8221; Horse and Buggy Rides are only $5, so this is way cheaper than most Uber rides, but there is a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,60,66,3,95],"class_list":["post-1891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","tag-academy-science-club-civics","tag-academyscience-us","tag-animal-allies","tag-fll","tag-smartnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academy.qualityone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}