{"id":4034,"date":"2014-04-07T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2014-04-08T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:21:57","slug":"traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/07\/traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the rearview mirror<br \/>\nreceding montage of children<br \/>\nstanding at the intersection<br \/>\nwaiting for yellow buses<\/p>\n<p>I weep leaving them behind<br \/>\nbut they soon pass me<br \/>\nin their own cars<br \/>\nsome wave<br \/>\nsome do not<\/p>\n<p>Several cars later<br \/>\nI see them on the road<br \/>\nkids, groceries, pets<br \/>\nin the back seat<br \/>\nsome wave<br \/>\nsome drive faster<\/p>\n<p>Some drive in wrecks<br \/>\nsome walk, bike<br \/>\nsome are chauffeured<br \/>\nsome never appear<\/p>\n<p>I focus on the road<br \/>\nglance at the rearview<br \/>\nsome are still standing<br \/>\nat the intersection<br \/>\nshiny and smiling<br \/>\nas before<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/01\/cruel-gruel-2\/napowrimo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" alt=\"NaPoWriMo\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-220x200.png 220w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-330x300.png 330w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo.png 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 7: today, a FaceBook conversation with a student from many years ago brought me here. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/07\/traffic\/\">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":[890,3],"tags":[1001,478,361,59],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-children","tag-retirement","tag-teaching","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","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=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4038,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}