{"id":6445,"date":"2010-11-29T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=6445"},"modified":"2010-11-29T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T06:43:16","slug":"trash-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/trash-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Trash Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/trash-truck.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6447\" title=\"trash truck\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/trash-truck.jpeg?resize=259%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Max was little, he used to love trucks. He was especially fond of trash trucks, which weren&#8217;t automated in those days.&nbsp;\u00a0 The trash man had to pick up the cans and empty them into the truck. The whole operation was very noisy.<\/p>\n<p>Every Thursday morning, at the sound of the truck in front of our house, Max would scream excitedly: &#8220;<strong>TASH TUCK<\/strong>!&#8221;&nbsp;\u00a0 We would stand at the window to watch.<\/p>\n<p>One day, the driver noticed Max at the window. He was a big black guy in a sanitation department uniform, wearing a cap and gloves. The guy waved, and smiled. I can still see his face, lit up by the dazzling grin.<\/p>\n<p>I said something like, &#8220;Look honey, the guy is waving to you!&#8221; Max nearly had a heart attack from sheer joy.<\/p>\n<p>What a great trash guy! What a great moment! I have always treasured it, like so many others, small moments that make up your life as a mother. You think they&#8217;ll stretch out ahead of you into the future &#8211; forever.<\/p>\n<p>I called a hot-line tonight, for the first time. A very nice lady named Ginger was there to help. I wish she could fix everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Max was little, he used to love trucks. He was especially fond of trash trucks, which weren&#8217;t automated in those days.&nbsp;\u00a0 The trash man had to pick up the cans and empty them into the truck. The whole operation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/trash-truck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[376,321],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1FX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}