{"id":10512,"date":"2018-02-28T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:12:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T14:12:22","slug":"a-bedbugger-talks-work-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10512","title":{"rendered":"A Bedbugger Talks Work on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This excerpt from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2017\/09\/21\/a-high-end-mover-dishes-on-truckstop-hierarchy-rich-people-and-moby-dick\/\"><em>The Long Haul<\/em>,\u00a0by\u00a0Finn Murphy<\/a> reads like a western, and I suppose it is, even though he says, &#8220;I do not for a moment think I\u2019m a symbol of some bygone ideal of Wild West American freedom or any other half-mythic, half-menacing nugget of folk nonsense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My destination is the ultrarich haven called Aspen, Colorado. This makes perfect sense because I\u2019m a long-haul mover at the pinnacle of the game, a specialist. I can make $250,000 a year doing what is called high-end executive relocation. No U-Hauls for me, thank you very much. I\u2019ll take the movie stars, the ambassadors, the corporate bigwigs. At the office in Connecticut they call me the Great White Mover. This Aspen load, insured for $3 million, belongs to a former investment banker from a former investment bank who apparently escaped the toppled citadel with his personal loot intact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u00a0How well a truck is loaded is the acid test of a mover. I can look at any driver\u2019s load and tell at a glance if he\u2019s any good at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2oEmiK6\"><em>The Long Haul: A Trucker\u2019s Tales of Life on the Road<\/em><\/a> by Finn Murphy was released last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This excerpt from\u00a0The Long Haul,\u00a0by\u00a0Finn Murphy reads like a western, and I suppose it is, even though he says, &#8220;I do not for a moment think I\u2019m a symbol of some bygone ideal of Wild West American freedom or any other half-mythic, half-menacing nugget of folk nonsense.&#8221; My destination is the ultrarich haven called Aspen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Bedbugger Talks Work on the Road<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}