{"id":8,"date":"2006-03-16T04:23:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T09:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-03-16T04:23:05","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T09:23:05","slug":"driving-after-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/16\/driving-after-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving after sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drone of the engine, the darkness outside<br \/>\nPunctuated by a universe of random lights<br \/>\nSomething jazzy straining through the radio static<a><\/a><br \/>\nConversations between my parents, half-heard:<br \/>\nGroceries to buy, bedding, getting the kids settled, naptha<br \/>\nI had memories of the beach in the morning: there would be<br \/>\nSand and sun and other kids and swimming and hotdogs and marshmallows<br \/>\n\u2014 too much joy to contain . . .<\/p>\n<p>The pillows and blankets they packed with us<br \/>\nAre a suffocating nest for my sister and me: we hate<br \/>\nOur familiarity, hate knowing too much about each other<br \/>\nWe have been simmering all day, can&#8217;t wait to separate<br \/>\nTo play together next morning on the beach,<br \/>\nSkipping gleefully through the shimmering shallow water.<br \/>\nI am playing a solo game, watching the light patterns<br \/>\nOn the virgin mouse fur ceiling stride forward as cars,<br \/>\nParadoxically, slip backward. The music on the radio changes.<br \/>\nMy father&#8217;s smoke drifts back, sweetly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone of the engine, the darkness outside Punctuated by a universe of random lights Something jazzy straining through the radio static Conversations between my parents, half-heard: Groceries to buy, bedding, getting the kids settled, naptha I had memories of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/16\/driving-after-sunset\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","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=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}