{"id":16904,"date":"2020-06-10T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16904"},"modified":"2020-06-10T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:05:41","slug":"and-on-the-drive-home-we-own-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/10\/and-on-the-drive-home-we-own-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"and on the drive home we own the road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">courtesy of dan, from matthew klam&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/06\/08\/lets-get-small\">&#8220;let&#8217;s get small&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Eleventh  grade: We have busboy jobs at Le Ch\u00e2teau, a big, corny restaurant run  by a mean French family, in a stone mansion overlooking the Hudson  Valley. The ma\u00eetre\u00a0d\u2019 is not so sure about us; neither are the waiters,  the captains, the wine guys, or Joseph, who hired us, or his lieutenant,  Koos. Individually, we do a capable job of clearing, hauling trays and  dish tubs, but as a team we\u2019re incompetent and despised. The grandmother  catches us eating food off people\u2019s plates, we\u2019re blamed for breaking  the ice machine, and the staff generates a growing list of insulting  nicknames for us. But there\u2019s a wonderful smell of baguettes in paper  bags, and on the drive home we own the road, dissecting the strangeness  of a menacing world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of dan, from matthew klam&#8217;s &#8220;let&#8217;s get small&#8221;: Eleventh grade: We have busboy jobs at Le Ch\u00e2teau, a big, corny restaurant run by a mean French family, in a stone mansion overlooking the Hudson Valley. The ma\u00eetre\u00a0d\u2019 is not so sure about us; neither are the waiters, the captains, the wine guys, or Joseph, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16905,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16904\/revisions\/16905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}