{"id":7368,"date":"2021-10-04T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2021-10-04T07:03:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:03:46","slug":"amazon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/amazon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7368\" data-postid=\"7368\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7368 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I was walking home on a Sunday morning after a stroll through the neighborhood. Rain threatened. My mind was writing up the encounters with the homeless I&#8217;d just experienced. Every time I take a walk or bike ride, I have such encounters. I never go out looking for them. They simply occur because the crisis is everywhere I look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young Black man dressed in an Amazon delivery uniform came walking toward me on the sidewalk. He was carrying a load of parcels on his shoulder. Odd? Amazon delivers early Sunday mornings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we got closer, I slowed down and we made eye contact. He looked exhausted and a bit dazed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmazon delivers on Sundays?\u201d I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYeah, this is my sixth day in a row,\u201d he said. \u201cI just started. I got one training and they sent me out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou know, I really appreciate how hard you are working during a Pandemic. You are important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His face instantly changed to attention. He even cracked a little smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t know how much that means to me right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was so much talk from the politicians how important you front line workers are, then they won&#8217;t raise the fucking minimum wage and help front line workers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I surprised myself how excitable I just had become. I was ready to talk union with him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYeah. I agree. They don&#8217;t really care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou keep on working hard and I appreciate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI appreciate you telling me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We said our goodbyes and he went back to work.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking home on a Sunday morning after a stroll through the neighborhood. Rain threatened. My mind was writing up the encounters with the homeless I&#8217;d just experienced. Every time I take a walk or bike ride, I have such encounters. I never go out looking for them. They simply occur because the crisis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}