{"id":191,"date":"2015-11-12T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2015\/11\/12\/my-life-driving-uber-as-an-iraq-war-veteran-with\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:09","slug":"my-life-driving-uber-as-an-iraq-war-veteran-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/11\/12\/my-life-driving-uber-as-an-iraq-war-veteran-with\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life Driving Uber as an Iraq War Veteran with PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"

I give Uber a PR boost. \u201cLook, we give those poor, poor veterans a way to make money!\u201d they can say. But veterans have experience being exploited, used up, treated as a statistic. As one soldier motto goes, \u201cSuck it up and drive on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My Life Driving Uber as an Iraq War Veteran with PTSD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I give Uber a PR boost. \u201cLook, we give those poor, poor veterans a way to make money!\u201d they can say. But veterans have experience being exploited, used up, treated as a statistic. As one soldier motto goes, \u201cSuck it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[347,368,375,383],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-taxi-driver","tag-travis-bickle","tag-uber","tag-veteran","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":813,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/11\/10\/lost-to-history-missing-war-records-complicate\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Lost to History: Missing War Records Complicate Benefit Claims by Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans","author":"aslam","date":"November 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"See on Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesField records from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, needed to document combat injuries, disability claims and the simple history of both wars, were never kept, were destroyed or simply cannot be found\u2026 See on propublica.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":149,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/06\/03\/uber-spreads-its-innovative-convenience-to\/","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":1},"title":"Uber spreads its innovative convenience to subprime auto leasing.","author":"aslam","date":"June 3, 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"The brilliance of such innovations\/disruptions is that they maintain the systemic status quo. 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