{"id":1826,"date":"2009-10-15T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2009-10-15T20:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T01:16:39","slug":"back-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"back roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>late summer<br \/>\ndays without rain<\/p>\n<p>tires crunch limestone gravel<br \/>\npushing shards down<br \/>\nagainst pale clay dirt<br \/>\nbaked in the sun<\/p>\n<p>clouds of dust billow<\/p>\n<p>we learn quickly to hold our breath<br \/>\nwait for the pickup to pass<br \/>\nplumes of tan behind<\/p>\n<p>even so<\/p>\n<p>you taste it, the earth, ground stone<br \/>\ncloying in the heat<br \/>\ndrier than sand<\/p>\n<p>suffocating<\/p>\n<p>coating everything<br \/>\nthe grass in the ditches,<br \/>\nthe grasshopper, size of a thumb, perched on a stone in the road<\/p>\n<p>all but the red-winged blackbird on the telephone wire<\/p>\n<p><em>I wrote this earlier this year, when the heat and dryness reminded me of those years in the country. Makes me kind of wistful now, during this damp, gray chilly time. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>late summer days without rain tires crunch limestone gravel pushing shards down against pale clay dirt baked in the sun clouds of dust billow we learn quickly to hold our breath wait for the pickup to pass plumes of tan behind even so you taste it, the earth, ground stone cloying in the heat drier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}