{"id":7093,"date":"2015-06-20T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2015-06-20T07:30:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T13:30:56","slug":"fresh-paint-for-city-hydrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2015\/06\/fresh-paint-for-city-hydrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh paint for city hydrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7094\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-7094 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hydrants-1-of-1-771x549.jpg\" alt=\"Paint\" width=\"771\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hydrants-1-of-1.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hydrants-1-of-1-336x239.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ed Kemmick\/Last Best News<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamon Rodrigues, left, and Quinn Abdallah, working for the city of Billings, paint a hydrant on the corner of South Broadway and Minnesota Avenue Thursday afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I kept seeing these two around town when I didn&#8217;t have my camera, so when I spotted them painting a hydrant close to home Thursday\u2014this was on the corner of South Broadway and Minnesota Avenue\u2014I couldn&#8217;t resist.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jamon Rodrigues and Quinn Abdallah have summer jobs with the\u00a0Distribution and Collection Division of the Public Works Department. They said they&#8217;ve been jetting out sewer lines and helping to repair leaks, and this week they were painting fire hydrants\u2014shiny coats of red and silver.<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues said he had the same job last summer, when he started at 54th Street West and worked his way east as far as Rocky Mountain College. This year, he and Abdallah started near Rocky and are making their way east again.<\/p>\n<p>He painted 970 hydrants last summer, Rodrigues\u00a0said, and they were shooting to finish 1,000 this year, completing about 35 a day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept seeing these two around town when I didn&#8217;t have my camera, so when I spotted them painting a hydrant close to home Thursday\u2014this was on the corner of South Broadway and Minnesota Avenue\u2014I couldn&#8217;t resist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2681,2683,2682,2684],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diversions","tag-city-of-billings","tag-jamon-rodrigues","tag-public-works-deparment","tag-quinn-abdallah","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}