{"id":15,"date":"2009-11-28T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T02:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2010-10-02T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T17:45:06","slug":"hello-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Hello Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently accepted a new delivery route at work and several of the workers I have seen every day over the last two years showered me with cards, cakes and gifts on my last day to their store.\u00a0 It was really a touching gesture on their part and I was very moved by their thoughtfulness.\u00a0 I thought about all the friends I had made during that time\u00a0 \u2013 I knew over 50 of them by name \u2013 and it was sad to realize that our paths probably wouldn\u2019t pass again for a long time.\u00a0 One thing I know from my job as a delivery driver is that out of casual greetings and little pieces of information passed on every day, you get to know people quite well.\u00a0 As we shared hugs and said good byes, we promised to keep in touch.\u00a0 I hope someday that I will sub for the driver doing the route now and get to say \u201cHello friends,\u201d again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently accepted a new delivery route at work and several of the workers I have seen every day over the last two years showered me with cards, cakes and gifts on my last day to their store.\u00a0 It was really a touching gesture on their part and I was very moved by their thoughtfulness.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pieces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelafferty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}