{"id":120,"date":"2004-04-16T00:54:11","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/04\/16\/april-15-at-south-station\/"},"modified":"2004-04-16T00:54:11","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T04:54:11","slug":"april-15-at-south-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/04\/april-15-at-south-station\/","title":{"rendered":"April 15 at South Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a67'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I walked to the South Station Post Office at 8pm this evening with Gene<br \/>\nand my tax returns in hand. I guessed that South Station would be<br \/>\nopen&nbsp; late (USPS automated line didn&#8217;t name this as one of the<br \/>\nafter hours drop off&#8217;s in my zip code). Before I even turned the corner<br \/>\non my way to the post office, I saw a man in an orange reflector jacket<br \/>\nand post office cap. He was waiving an envelope and saying, &#8220;if it&#8217;s<br \/>\ngot a stamp, I&#8217;ll take it.&#8221; Another man was standing on the shoulder of<br \/>\nthe road, collecting envelopes from the cars lined up outside the post<br \/>\noffice. I handed him our returns and quickly made my way to the South<br \/>\nStation T. Inside the station, I saw volunteer tax preparers were<br \/>\nhudling around tables with tax filers in the area where folks typically<br \/>\nwait for the commuter rail or amtrack. It appeared as if the U.S. post<br \/>\noffice had also set up a temporary outpost as well. <\/p>\n<p>South Station had the same adrenyline buzz and odd-couple study group<br \/>\nfeel of&nbsp; the night before the big exam. It was commraderie born of<br \/>\nthe shared dreaded task. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked to the South Station Post Office at 8pm this evening with Gene and my tax returns in hand. I guessed that South Station would be open&nbsp; late (USPS automated line didn&#8217;t name this as one of the after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/04\/april-15-at-south-station\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44935],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-massachusetts-boston-cambridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}