{"id":521,"date":"2007-03-22T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T03:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/22\/highway-away-way-a-way\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T03:08:22","slug":"highway-away-way-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/22\/highway-away-way-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway away way a way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic tight as we go forth<br \/>\non the two way north<br \/>\nat the light slow take off cripes<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a guy two cars ahead<br \/>\nhead in the stars stopped dead<br \/>\nfinally starts<br \/>\nwandering slowly<br \/>\nwavering into<br \/>\noff the highway<br \/>\nif he&#8217;s drunk<br \/>\nthen kerchunk<br \/>\nout of luck<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t pass the schmuck for<br \/>\nsouthbound cars and trucks<br \/>\nstill he sways<br \/>\nin a daze?<\/p>\n<p>Speeds up<br \/>\nslows down<br \/>\ndrivin&#8217; Ivan in front of me crazy<br \/>\nwants to pass the ass<br \/>\nbut he can&#8217;t<br \/>\nnor can I drive<br \/>\nthis car where and how fast<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to<br \/>\nfinally the way is clear:<br \/>\nguy ahead<br \/>\ntakes the lead<br \/>\nstarts to speed<br \/>\nthen pull out<br \/>\nroom for me<br \/>\nand he to do<br \/>\nand we do<br \/>\nsee the schmoo<br \/>\nin the weaving<br \/>\ncrash-waiting-to-happen<br \/>\n&#8216;way &#8216;way far away from his car<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s a star<br \/>\non the phone<br \/>\n&#8217;nuff said, Ned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic tight as we go forth on the two way north at the light slow take off cripes there&#8217;s a guy two cars ahead head in the stars stopped dead finally starts wandering slowly wavering into off the highway if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/22\/highway-away-way-a-way\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}