{"id":1620,"date":"2011-09-12T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2011-09-12T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T01:00:57","slug":"i-brake-for-half-naked-men-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1620","title":{"rendered":"I brake for half-naked men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1621 aligncenter\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Hit me with your best shot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1622\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1627\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-10402131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1628\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040248\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-10402481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1629\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-10402452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1630\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040249\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1631\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Thumbs up ma&#8217;am. Thanks for your generous tip!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1632\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0When my farmhouse caught fire in 1996, our local VOLUNTEER fire\u00a0department responded. It was 10 below zero, making the battle almost impossible. (The fire won.) Whenever\u00a0they have a fund-raiser, I&#8217;m there.\u00a0But half-naked men, I&#8217;m really there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Later that day as my daughter and I were coming home from an evening event, we drove past a fire truck stopped by the side of the road. Here&#8217;s our exchange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Mom, do you know that guy? One of those handsome firefighters just waved at you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Me: &#8220;No, but I think he was one of the guys I tipped today at their fundraising car wash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meg: &#8220;Awesome Mom.\u00a0If that&#8217;s all it takes to &#8220;know&#8221; a firefighter, when is their next car wash?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1633\" title=\"brake_for_firefighters-1040235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/brake_for_firefighters-1040235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/1620\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[139,315,316,545,568,944],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving_back","tag-car-wash","tag-fire","tag-firefighters","tag-maryjane","tag-meg","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}