{"id":1914,"date":"2009-09-02T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T18:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2009-09-03T19:27:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T23:27:32","slug":"passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/09\/02\/passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I usually drive the car<br \/>\nbecause my wife would prefer<br \/>\nto cringe, inhale sharply,<br \/>\nand practice virtual braking\u2014<br \/>\nall the while protesting<br \/>\nthat I am an excellent driver,<\/p>\n<p>In the rest of my life<!--more--><br \/>\nI stomp on virtual brakes<br \/>\nclench my teeth in frustration<br \/>\nmutter under my breath<br \/>\nabout the choice of route<br \/>\nand the quality of the driving<br \/>\nby the jackass politicians<br \/>\nwho are always about to crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;passengers&#8221; uses driving as a metaphor for life (#894) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/09\/02\/passenger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,416],"tags":[420,327,326],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-complaint","tag-frustration","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}