{"id":40,"date":"2004-08-11T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-08-11T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T00:40:00","slug":"picking-up-road-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/picking-up-road-garbage\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking up road garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m running I scan the sidewalk ahead of me. I don&#8217;t look ahead at the horizon instead I keep my gaze down. I think the constantly changing view stimulates the visual side of my brain (the creative one), makes me think, and I like it. I&#8217;m sure this is very bad form for running, but, hey, I don&#8217;t really care. <\/p>\n<p>When I don&#8217;t really have anything to think about, I look at the upcoming sidewalk, the curb, and the road edge. Since I&#8217;ve had several tire punctures over the years I scan for nails, screws and other nasty things on the roadside. When I see one, I stop, pick it up, and put it in my pocket. Upon returning home I toss the nasty in the trash. Naturally I pick up other things like money, CDs, baseball cards, and other intersting curiosities. My children think I&#8217;m wierd, but I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>When I return from running I walk around the cul-de-sac cooling off. Recently the young teen boys who live on our cul-de-sac have gotten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbytron.net\/Airsoft-Spring-Guns.html\">toy BB guns<\/a> which shoot plastic pellets. They have their gun battles in the front yards, sidewalks, and driveways which surroung the cul-de-sac. In my typical manner I now scan for their spent pellets when cooling off. I&#8217;ve picked up hundreds of these little beasties. Then instead of tossing them, I save them in a glass. I keep asking myself why do I do this, because they don&#8217;t cause tire punctures. Somehow I do care.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/images\/Pellets.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m running I scan the sidewalk ahead of me. I don&#8217;t look ahead at the horizon instead I keep my gaze down. I think the constantly changing view stimulates the visual side of my brain (the creative one), makes me think, and I like it. I&#8217;m sure this is very bad form for running, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}