{"id":39696,"date":"2017-05-25T20:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=39696"},"modified":"2017-05-25T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:26:40","slug":"caltrans-joins-forces-with-veterans-to-combat-litter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=39696","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans Joins Forces With Veterans to Combat Litter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230; \u00a0In the last fiscal year, Caltrans spent over $67 million picking up litter along state highways, that\u2019s enough litter to fill almost 9,000 garbage trucks, and now veterans are joining the battle to combat this chronic problem.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hENz9WzFvg?list=PLeXl970ijTguR-LqVqx5xi1nXZ3K3kL5q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn this Caltrans News Flash, members of the new Caltrans Veterans Outreach Program help clean a stretch of State Route 99 in Sacramento. This innovative program assists veterans with jobs and training, giving them much-needed tools to re-enter the workforce, while also keeping California highways clean.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis video can be viewed at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.dot.ca.gov\/paffairs\/newsflash\/<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis News Flash is the 132nd in a series of videos highlighting Caltrans\u2019 activities that present the wide-ranging and critical work that Caltrans does to enhance California\u2019s economy and livability. To see more of these and other videos, search for #CaltransNewsFlash on Twitter or go to\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ez3LYz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, CA&#8230; \u00a0In the last fiscal year, Caltrans spent over $67 million picking up litter along state highways, that\u2019s enough litter to fill almost 9,000 garbage trucks, and now veterans are joining the battle to combat this chronic problem. \u00a0 In this Caltrans News Flash, members of the new Caltrans Veterans Outreach Program help clean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","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":[20,4,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-life-style","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/caltransm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}