{"id":327,"date":"2008-08-28T06:51:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-08-28T06:51:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:51:54","slug":"repost-pushing-trolleys-to-make-ends-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/28\/repost-pushing-trolleys-to-make-ends-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost: Pushing trolleys to make ends meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minor quibble, a side line is something you do aside a job\/ or side by side a job. When it is your main means of making a living no matter how small or how far from a normal job it is , that is your work and not your sideline.<br \/>\nfrom Inquirer Blogs <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.inquirer.net\/beingfilipino\/2008\/08\/26\/pushing-trolleys-to-make-ends-meet\/\">here<\/a> please do read the whole thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pushing trolleys to make ends meet<br \/>\n08\/26\/08<br \/>\nPosted under Everyday People, Videos<br \/>\nBy Izah Morales<br \/>\nINQUIRER.net<br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines \u2013 An economic crisis pushes people to engage in sidelines or extra jobs aside from the regular job they are already doing. But for 21-year-old Rodel Rosario of Los Ba\u00f1os, a sideline means the only way of making ends meet.<br \/>\nPushing a trolley from \u201cCrossing\u201d to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Ba\u00f1os has become Rodel\u2019s \u201csideline\u201d for two years now.<br \/>\n\u201cKung walang trabaho, ito \u2018yung sideline ko ang mag-tulak ng trolley[If I have nothing else to do, I push trolleys for sideline], \u201d he said.<br \/>\nEvery morning and afternoon, he is like an ice skater gliding on the train tracks, his feet alternately stepping on the steel (instead of ice) to move the makeshift trolley forward. However, his movement is not as smooth and graceful like an ice skater because his \u201cskating rink\u201d is the railway and his so-called performance is to push the trolley that carries a maximum of five passengers.<br \/>\nA trolley ride costs P25, according to Rosario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minor quibble, a side line is something you do aside a job\/ or side by side a job. When it is your main means of making a living no matter how small or how far from a normal job it is , that is your work and not your sideline. from Inquirer Blogs here please &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/28\/repost-pushing-trolleys-to-make-ends-meet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost: Pushing trolleys to make ends meet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-social-sciences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}