{"id":133156,"date":"2023-09-02T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=133156"},"modified":"2023-09-02T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T20:59:48","slug":"a-summer-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-summer-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A simple pleasure that only cost 25 cents a gallon was a drive to anywhere<br \/>\nWe would pile into the family car skirmishing for the coveted window seat<br \/>\nWe cranked the windows down, the car-generated breeze kept us cool<br \/>\nMaking our eyes water, but who cared\u2014 we were in the car<br \/>\nThe journey took us through industrial sites and neighborhoods of black and brown<br \/>\nThrough citrus orchards not yet turned to asphalt and concrete<br \/>\nA stretch of winding two-lane highway took us to the top of South Mountain<br \/>\nWhere we would find a picnic area that gave us a view of the valley<br \/>\nA picnic of charred hot dogs, potato salad and a slice of cold watermelon sated our appetites<br \/>\nWashed it down with a jug of lemonade or tepid tap water provided by the park system<br \/>\nWe clambered over the boulders, played hide and seek, threw stones until exhausted<br \/>\nNo one cared where they sat on the way home<\/p>\n<p>It was Sunday and it was summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple pleasure that only cost 25 cents a gallon was a drive to anywhere We would pile into the family car skirmishing for the coveted window seat We cranked the windows down, the car-generated breeze kept us cool Making our eyes water, but who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133156","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\/2354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133913,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133156\/revisions\/133913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}