{"id":130767,"date":"2023-09-02T14:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130767"},"modified":"2023-09-02T19:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T23:12:32","slug":"david-byrne-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/david-byrne-street\/","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say I live on David Byrne Street.<br \/>\nWith its village academy at one end and<br \/>\nFirehouse 19 on the other, it reminds me of Byrne pontificating on the lives of people<br \/>\nin &#8216;Flyoverville&#8217; in &#8220;The Big Country&#8221; from <em>More Songs About Buildings and Food<\/em>.<br \/>\nIs the presence of a World Market (does Byrne shop there? Costco seems more likely his style.)<br \/>\njust around the corner scarily coincidental?<br \/>\nCue Rod Serling?<br \/>\nByrne&#8217;s ironic refrain, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t live there if you paid me,&#8221;<br \/>\nsends a smile to my face as I walk home, passing<br \/>\nWestporters out Westporting.<br \/>\nWho am I to judge when, eons ago, I was one of them.<br \/>\nOn nearby, unnamed streets the sirens shrill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say I live on David Byrne Street. With its village academy at one end and Firehouse 19 on the other, it reminds me of Byrne pontificating on the lives of people in &#8216;Flyoverville&#8217; in &#8220;The Big Country&#8221; from More Songs About Buildings and Food&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130767"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131965,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130767\/revisions\/131965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}