{"id":652,"date":"2010-04-25T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2014-09-28T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T18:52:19","slug":"days-41-47-a-happy-traffic-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-41-47-a-happy-traffic-jam\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 41-47: A Happy Traffic Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Days-41-47-hazardous-recycling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-653\" title=\"Days 41-47 hazardous recycling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Days-41-47-hazardous-recycling-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been waiting for April 24 for a long time. Apparently, so have a lot of other people in my neighborhood. It\u2019s the day N. Kentucky finally sponsored a Hazardous Materials Disposal Day. I not only felt virtuous loading up an old computer, printer, and monitor, I also safely got rid of radios, lamps, light bulbs, paint, speakers, and various other broken electronics. On the way to the disposal center I ran into a traffic jam at the interstate exit. At first I thought there was an accident, but then I realized that all the cars were going to the same place I was \u2013 about two miles off the exit. It\u2019s the first time I ever was thankful for so many cars ahead of me. It took a little longer but it was for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>Most communities have a day, week, or other period of time that they offer a drop off place for hazardous waste (often in the spring). Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/osw\/conserve\/materials\/hhw.htm\">EPA website on Household Hazardous Waste<\/a> for more information. Contact your local government for dates and places or find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wm.com\/facility-locator.jsp\">Waste Management<\/a> facility near you.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been waiting for April 24 for a long time. Apparently, so have a lot of other people in my neighborhood. It\u2019s the day N. Kentucky finally sponsored a Hazardous Materials Disposal Day. I not only felt virtuous loading up an old computer, printer, and monitor, I also safely got rid of radios, lamps, light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,38],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-fun","category-the-process","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}