{"id":140790,"date":"2019-02-27T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=140790"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:57:11","slug":"valentine-passenger-profile-jack-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/valentine-passenger-profile-jack-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine Passenger Profile: Jack &#038; Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, we will be sharing a special story of a couple who met while riding Metro. This week\u2019s Passenger Profile features two transit lovebirds, Jack and Jordan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0201.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-140792\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"Two passengers at the Grand MetroLink Station\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Two passengers at the Grand MetroLink Station\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-140792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0201-1024x687.jpg\" alt=\"Two passenger at the Grand MetroLink Station\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0201-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0201-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0201-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The excitement that comes with a new job can bring all sorts of emotions, but love wasn\u2019t what Jack expected when he started as a tour guide for the Gateway Arch last fall.<\/p>\n<p>While Jack lives in Illinois, on this particular day he was staying with a friend in the Tower Grove neighborhood. To get to the Arch, Jack relied on MetroLink via the Grand MetroLink Station. It was on this platform that Jack would meet Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw he was wearing a Gateway Arch uniform,\u201d Jack said. \u201cSo, I introduced myself and rode the train down together. We immediately hit it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two would forge a friendship at work, but Jack felt the beginnings of something more. He just needed to know if Jordan felt the same way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, I just built up the courage to ask him out,\u201d Jack said. \u201cIt\u2019s helpful that I\u2019m an extrovert, and he\u2019s an introvert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two would spend their first date over sushi and drinks, but that one date would not be the last. Over the coming months, they would rely on MetroLink to chauffeur them around town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the perfect way of going to new places because we had MetroLink at our disposal,\u201d Jack said.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, Jack knows fate played a role in this particular convergence. Fate &#8212; and Metro Transit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly owe our entire relationship to Metro,\u201d he said. \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for you guys, my relationship would have never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0162.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-140793\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"Two passenger at the Grand MetroLink Station\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Two passenger at the Grand MetroLink Station\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-140793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0162-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Two passenger at the Grand MetroLink Station\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0162-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0162-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/IMG_0162-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, we will be sharing a special story of a couple who met while riding Metro. This week\u2019s Passenger Profile features two transit lovebirds, Jack and Jordan. The excitement that comes with a new job can bring all sorts of emotions, but love wasn\u2019t what Jack expected when he started as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1198,1687,1427],"class_list":["post-140790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle","tag-passenger-profile","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}