{"id":354,"date":"2006-10-18T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=354"},"modified":"2006-10-18T20:28:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T10:28:26","slug":"homeless-shopping-trolleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Homeless shopping trolleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to work the other day and was struck by the lengths to which shopping carts go to escape the rat-race, ending up as homeless vagrants, wandering the streets and highways by day and sheltering under bridges or in culverts by night. Inspired by the <a title=\"field guide to shoppng carts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strayshoppingcart.com\/shopping_cart\/1_introduction.htm\">Field Guide to Shopping Carts of North Eastern America<\/a> I decided to document a couple from downunder.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a Romeo and Juliet story of two young lovers &#8211; trolleys from different supermarkets, who have run away and are now living rough near the old Weston Creek forest in Canberra<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image352\" alt=\"shopping trolleys\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/trolley2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second is a lonelier tale of a trolley who&#8217;s lost and cant find their way back to the supermarket. This one sleeps rough under an overpass on the outskirts of Canberra city centre<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image353\" alt=\"shopping cart\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/trolley1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Both would be classed as <a title=\"field guide to shopping carts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strayshoppingcart.com\/shopping_cart\/4_ts.htm\">Type B1<\/a> &#8211; True Strays: Open True &#8211; a cart situated on a street or in a park or parking lot, outside of a two-block SOURCE radius. Thanks to <a title=\"Makzine blog on shopping carts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2006\/08\/the_stray_shopping_carts_of_ea.html\">MAKEZINE<\/a> for pointing to the field guide<br \/>\nWhat is the most remote location you&#8217;ve seen a shopping cart?<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was driving to work the other day and was struck by the lengths to which shopping carts go to escape the rat-race, ending up as homeless vagrants, wandering the streets and highways by day and sheltering under bridges or in culverts by night. Inspired by the Field Guide to Shopping Carts of North Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}