{"id":2494,"date":"2021-07-29T19:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T23:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T23:39:46","slug":"city-of-chattanooga-sending-a-guy-to-just-set-your-recycling-on-fire-after-truck-driver-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2021\/07\/29\/city-of-chattanooga-sending-a-guy-to-just-set-your-recycling-on-fire-after-truck-driver-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Chattanooga sending a guy to just set your recycling on fire after truck driver shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After the City of Chattanooga announced it will be halting curbside recycling pickup due to a shortage of truck drivers, a representative from the same department announced plans that it&#8217;ll send someone out to set your recycling on fire until positions can be filled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sources say city residents can still leave their recycling curbside until a guy named Carl or Steve drops by with a Bic lighter to set your recycling ablaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re still checking on the logic behind this, but it&#8217;s the best we can do until we put some warm bodies in trash trucks,&#8221; explained City of Chattanooga director of recycling, Julia Joderson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the City of Chattanooga announced it will be halting curbside recycling pickup due to a shortage of truck drivers, a representative from the same department announced plans that it&#8217;ll send someone out to set your recycling on fire until positions can be filled. Sources say city residents can still leave their recycling curbside until a guy named Carl or Steve drops by with a Bic lighter to set your recycling ablaze. &#8220;We&#8217;re still checking on the logic behind this, but it&#8217;s the best we can do until we put some warm bodies in trash trucks,&#8221; explained City of Chattanooga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}