{"id":926,"date":"2008-05-18T06:54:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=926"},"modified":"2017-03-03T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T15:15:33","slug":"nonchalant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/18\/nonchalant\/","title":{"rendered":"nonchalant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was too busy driving<br \/>\nto be paying attention<\/p>\n<p>girl in a bikini<br \/>\non a cool spring day<br \/>\nriding a bike<br \/>\ndown the main street<br \/>\nsmiling with a young guy<br \/>\nriding casually beside her<\/p>\n<p>Wife said<br \/>\n&#8220;Did you see that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?&#8221;<br \/>\nI said<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The girl in the bikini&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right there<br \/>\nriding a bike<br \/>\nwith that boy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to<br \/>\nrun off the road<br \/>\nI just took a glance<br \/>\nin my rear view<\/p>\n<p>Wife said<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d seen her.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s wrong<br \/>\nwith you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s wrong indeed<br \/>\nfrom what I could see<br \/>\nafter the fact<br \/>\nshe was young<br \/>\nblonde<br \/>\npretty<br \/>\nshapely<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about<br \/>\nit<br \/>\nabout her<br \/>\nI wondered<br \/>\nwhat was going on<br \/>\nin her head<br \/>\non such a cool day<\/p>\n<p>why such ammunition?<br \/>\nif you saw it in a movie<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d say<br \/>\n&#8220;Come on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yet there she was<br \/>\non the main street<br \/>\nplenty of traffic<br \/>\nin our small city<\/p>\n<p>And here I am<br \/>\nan old guy<br \/>\nwho almost missed it<br \/>\nwriting a poem about it<\/p>\n<p>cool<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/25\/snug\/versesq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3898\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3898\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-150x150.png\" alt=\"verse logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was too busy driving to be paying attention girl in a bikini on a cool spring day riding a bike down the main street smiling with a young guy riding casually beside her Wife said &#8220;Did you see that?&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/18\/nonchalant\/\">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":[3,42],"tags":[129,435,399],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-scapes","tag-beauty","tag-phenomenon","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}