Trash Day <\/b><\/p>\n
Jen forgot to put the trash out. \u00a0It was all there–every little scrap: wrappers, boxes, cans, bottles, pieces of string, dust balls, dead crickets, dead cricket legs, paper–all of it. \u00a0\u00a0It was the 45th time this year, that she\u2019d missed trash day–45 weeks–only seven more pick ups left \u00a0in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll remember next week,\u201d she said out loud to no one. \u201cI\u2019ll write myself a note–a reminder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n She went to her desk for pen and paper. \u00a0She wrote: \u00a0TRASH DAY, Tuesday and took the note into the kitchen. \u00a0\u00a0She placed it on the refrigerator door using a butterfly magnet to hold it in place–next to 44 other slips of paper.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 Glenda Kotchish<\/span><\/p>\n October 16, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trash Day Jen forgot to put the trash out. \u00a0It was all there–every little scrap: wrappers, boxes, cans, bottles, pieces of string, dust balls, dead crickets, dead cricket legs, paper–all of it. \u00a0\u00a0It was the 45th time this year, that she\u2019d missed trash day–45 weeks–only seven more pick ups left \u00a0in 2016. \u201cI\u2019ll remember … Continue reading Trash Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/233"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}