{"id":59465,"date":"2025-05-17T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59465"},"modified":"2025-05-17T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:15:26","slug":"im-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59465","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019M A TRUCK."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-281.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-281.png 514w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-281-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been driving trucks for eight years\u2014rain, snow, sunrise to midnight highways. It\u2019s not just a job. It\u2019s mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the freedom, the solitude, the hum of the engine under my hands.But my family? They don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStill doing that truck thing?\u201d my mom asks. My sister tells me to do something \u201cmore feminine.\u201d My dad says, \u201cNot exactly lady-like, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Thanksgiving, my uncle joked, \u201cYou sure you don\u2019t want a husband to drive you around?\u201d Everyone laughed. I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After dinner, I climbed into my rig\u2014my second home\u2014and sat there in the silence. This truck, this life, is who I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That night, I slept in my sleeper berth, surrounded by photos from the road\u2014friends, diners, truck stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who respect me because I show up, not because I wear heels.A week later in Arizona, I caught<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a little girl staring at my truck. I nodded. She grinned like she\u2019d seen a superhero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=59301\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been driving trucks for eight years\u2014rain, snow, sunrise to midnight highways. It\u2019s not just a job. It\u2019s mine. I love the freedom, the solitude, the hum&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59467,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59465\/revisions\/59467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}