{"id":9853,"date":"2013-07-30T22:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9853"},"modified":"2013-07-30T22:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:47:28","slug":"junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9853","title":{"rendered":"Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=right>by Robert Fenhagen<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=9854\">click aici<\/a> pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019d you find?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing.\u00a0\u00a0 A lottery ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrow it away.\u00a0 C\u2019mon, we got a car to smash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A filthy, flattened field crowded with towers of crushed and rusting vehicles, the junk yard took up three city blocks in Newark, New Jersey; the only time given reprieve in the winter when an occasional white blanket hid it. People brought their previously beloved vehicles that somehow had morphed into useless junk, only to\u00a0 sell for scrap, plus a hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tony Golofino was about to toss the ticket, but it looked brand new, and there was the Lotto Super-Max drawing coming up. He looked out at the vast yard, and shook his head.\u00a0\u00a0 He\u2019d pretty much accepted his lot in\u00a0 life, but once in a while the old fantasy tapped on his consciousness, but he had gotten better and better at ignoring the taps, so barely reacted to them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Accident, or two tons of the Cruncher; it didn\u2019t matter. An acre of violence one way or another.\u00a0 Kind of a shame. He used to lament all of the screaming and dying stories as the Cruncher did its job; watching windshields and roofs exploding and imploding. Tony wished he could escape the yard, but his family needed him, and instead of\u00a0 tossing the ticket, he stuck it in his filthy baggy green pants pocket\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That night, a neighbor overheard a scream from next door, which sounded like\u00a0 somebody had won a lottery, or something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Fenhagen click aici pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103 \u201cWhat\u2019d you find?\u201d &nbsp; \u201cNothing.\u00a0\u00a0 A lottery ticket.\u201d &nbsp; \u201cThrow it away.\u00a0 C\u2019mon, we got a car to smash.\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,22],"tags":[1164,25,1116],"class_list":["post-9853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-38","category-short-story","tag-egophobia-38","tag-robert-fenhagen","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DakB-junk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9856,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions\/9856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}