{"id":27092,"date":"2016-08-14T03:40:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=27092"},"modified":"2016-08-14T03:40:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T07:40:02","slug":"la-la-lurch-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/la-la-lurch-you\/","title":{"rendered":"La-La-Lurch You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angelinos are the most spatially distracted population in the continental US.<\/p>\n<p>You think this as the museum crowd walks into you.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is time for stormy weather.&#8221;<br \/>\nEveryone intones, <em>June gloom<\/em>,<br \/>\nand you wander Melrose for a decent jacket<br \/>\nto survive the remaining junket weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Line&#8217;s brand new; you jaunt from one<br \/>\ntourist hunt to another, but are still confounded<br \/>\nto have a simple request for how to reach a particular street<br \/>\ndelegated to a complete stranger, who, of course, doesn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>And, don&#8217;t ask a taxi driver.<br \/>\nThe one you have is worthless.<\/p>\n<p>Is it coincidence that all the tourist attractions<br \/>\nsmell like public urinals?<\/p>\n<p>If Kansas City is a remote expectorant,<br \/>\nLos Angeles is a fever dream with no relief<br \/>\nbut departing plane lights.<\/p>\n<p>All your favorite LA movies:<br \/>\nan ex you try to dial<br \/>\non a sleepless night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angelinos are the most spatially distracted population in the continental US. You think this as the museum crowd walks into you. &#8220;It is time for stormy weather.&#8221; Everyone intones, June gloom, and you wander Melrose for a decent jacket to survive the remaining junket&#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-27092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092","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=27092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27174,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27092\/revisions\/27174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}