{"id":284,"date":"2016-12-11T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wherndon.net\/?p=284"},"modified":"2022-08-11T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:42:07","slug":"road-noise-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1st poem in the collection, <em>Road Noise<\/em>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn 1996 I made a cross country road-trip, alone. I was headed from Washington, DC to San Francisco to join Anne in the city that would become our home for the next 14 years. On that trip I wrote a series of poems that I called <em>Road Noise<\/em>. <em>Tennessee<\/em> is the first of these.<\/p>\n<div class=\"verse\">\nTwenty magnificent riders\u2014A family moving in unison<br \/>\nOn black Harleys with fire orange logos.<\/p>\n<p>Knife long shadows behind them joust on pavement<br \/>\nSlaying each other at twilight.<\/p>\n<p>Other cars blow by\u2014but lonely and tired, I pass slow<br \/>\nWishing I had someone to ride with.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a9 Copyright 1996 William Herndon, All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wherndon.net\/?p=291\">Next&nbsp;&nbsp;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st poem in the collection, Road Noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","category-verse","tag-poetry","tag-road-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wherndon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}