{"id":53477,"date":"2022-02-09T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=53477"},"modified":"2022-02-09T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T22:46:16","slug":"i-love-brahms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=53477","title":{"rendered":"“I love Brahms.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning to go shopping this afternoon. Instead, I made a lengthy journey, thanks to this terrific New York Times article (and with panoramic photographs by George Etheredge) from Peter Goodman, on US truckers, with a few days in the life of one US trucker:<\/a><\/p>\n

[Stephen Graves] revels in challenging popular stereotypes of the truck driver, speaking with the precise elocution of a college professor. He discarded his CB radio years ago, weary of hearing the crude and sometimes hateful chatter dispensed over crackly airwaves. He starts his morning listening to the global news report from BBC World Service in London, and then switches to light jazz or classical.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI love Brahms,\u201d he says, as he winds through Kansas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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He savors certain stretches of road, anticipating them for hundreds of miles. Today\u2019s journey takes him through one of his favorites \u2014 the Flint Hills of Kansas.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the summer, the tall grass, the prairie grass is going full,\u201d he said. \u201cIt blows gently in the wind. You can just listen to the wind. It\u2019s such a calm and soothing feeling.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was planning to go shopping this afternoon. Instead, I made a lengthy journey, thanks to this terrific New York Times article (and with panoramic photographs by George Etheredge) from Peter Goodman, on US truckers, with a few days in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175],"tags":[8228,8229,7944,8230],"class_list":["post-53477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","tag-johannes-brahms","tag-stephen-graves","tag-supply-chain","tag-us-truckers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t