{"id":9420,"date":"2012-09-21T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9420"},"modified":"2012-09-21T22:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T02:05:38","slug":"the-trash-washes-up-to-shore-even-in-this-landlocked-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9420","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The trash washes up to shore even in this landlocked place.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/8001533685\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8321\/8001533685_35978cefaf.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spent most of today picking up trash in <a href=\"http:\/\/nysparks.com\/parks\/93\/details.aspx\">Riverbank State Park<\/a> in uptown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I do this? you may very well be asking yourself. Well, it was all part of our company&#8217;s &#8220;volunteer days,&#8221; which is either a new policy or one I&#8217;ve never heard of in my just shy of eight years working there. We get one day off a year to volunteer at local programs and charities, and this was one of three options we were given.<\/p>\n<p>It was gorgeous weather for it &#8212; my one regret is that my phone (and its camera) died on me before I could take any pictures &#8212; but I am now surprisingly tired and a little achy. And if I never see another bottle cap in my life&#8230; But it was actually nice. We worked from ten to three, with a generous break for lunch, and hopefully helped keep one of the city&#8217;s parks a little cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of today picking up trash in Riverbank State Park in uptown Manhattan. Why did I do this? you may very well be asking yourself. Well, it was all part of our company&#8217;s &#8220;volunteer days,&#8221; which is either a new policy or one I&#8217;ve never heard of in my just shy of eight &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9420\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[54,28,52],"class_list":["post-9420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}