{"id":6742,"date":"2012-11-30T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2012-11-30T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T03:50:09","slug":"friday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=6742","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use to want to be truck driver when I was a little, little kid.  Probably came from my hours of listening to C.W. McCall as a child.  Also I have this uncle &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=6154\">the guy that use to freak me out about the chickens<\/a>&#8211; he wanted to be a rodeo bronc buster and a truck driver.  So when I&#8217;d be visiting that&#8217;s all we talked about.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/8233790812\/\" title=\"P1060682 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8202\/8233790812_b17b2216dd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"P1060682\"><\/a><br \/>\nThat and he&#8217;d practice trying to calf rope me -he barely gave me a 10 second start to run. Any wonder I am a bit quirky and cagey?<\/p>\n<p>My uncle, he&#8217;s a truck driver, has been since the day he left home.  <\/p>\n<p>Would it surprise any of you to learn that I worked at a truck stop in my early twenties. <\/p>\n<p>No, probably not, huh?<\/p>\n<p>I worked maintenance- that&#8217;s code for glorified janitor.  <\/p>\n<p>It was a good time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They drove Chevys and Macs with big ol&#8217; stacks.&#8221;<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GIA37zkfiHk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GIA37zkfiHk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Friday everyone! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use to want to be truck driver when I was a little, little kid. Probably came from my hours of listening to C.W. McCall as a child. Also I have this uncle &#8211;the guy that use to freak me out about the chickens&#8211; he wanted to be a rodeo bronc buster and a truck [&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":[],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6755,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/6755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}