{"id":139732,"date":"2023-09-03T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=139732"},"modified":"2023-09-03T01:25:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T05:25:53","slug":"hour-17-interstate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-17-interstate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 17: Interstate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of California<\/p>\n<p>Is 1040 miles long<\/p>\n<p>And most of that<\/p>\n<p>Is nothing at all<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Empty grassland<\/p>\n<p>Grazing cattle<\/p>\n<p>Sloping hills<\/p>\n<p>Varying shades of yellow and brown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At eighty miles per hour<\/p>\n<p>It is a blur<\/p>\n<p>Several hours long<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is easy for a mind to wander<\/p>\n<p>Lost in the endless waving grass<\/p>\n<p>Grabbed only by the occasional landmark<\/p>\n<p>Or a fellow lonely traveler<\/p>\n<p>Courting death at 110 miles per hour<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you die in the in between,<\/p>\n<p>Do you just keep driving forever?<\/p>\n<p>If Dante saw the Interstate<\/p>\n<p>Would he recognize Purgatory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of California Is 1040 miles long And most of that Is nothing at all &nbsp; Empty grassland Grazing cattle Sloping hills Varying shades of yellow and brown &nbsp; At eighty miles per hour It is a blur Several hours long &nbsp; It is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139732","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\/5302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139745,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139732\/revisions\/139745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}