{"id":21812,"date":"2016-08-13T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21812"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:44:03","slug":"hitchhiking-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hitchhiking-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchhiking 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first hitchhiking trip was from Toronto to Cambridge.<br \/>\n10 rides.<br \/>\n18 hours.<\/p>\n<p>With my long hair, beard and back pack<br \/>\nI blended in easily with the other hitchhikers.<br \/>\nThe drivers were mostly lonely salesman,<br \/>\nwho needed an audience.<\/p>\n<p>My role was to listen,<br \/>\nalmost priest like,<br \/>\nto their sins and troubles.<\/p>\n<p>There was nothing scary except<br \/>\nfor the man with 12 inch knife<br \/>\nattached to his belt.<\/p>\n<p>Scary would come on our hitching<br \/>\ntrip across Canada<br \/>\nwhen the trains were on strike.<br \/>\nWe survived and have stayed hitched ever since.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first hitchhiking trip was from Toronto to Cambridge. 10 rides. 18 hours. With my long hair, beard and back pack I blended in easily with the other hitchhikers. The drivers were mostly lonely salesman, who needed an audience. My role was to listen, almost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812","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\/778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29074,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21812\/revisions\/29074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}