{"id":33174,"date":"2017-08-05T11:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=33174"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:42:00","slug":"carmel-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/carmel-by-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmel-by-the-Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fluorescents buzz and hum,<br \/>\nan old golfer on the muted tv,<br \/>\nthe only lights in this place.<br \/>\n1am Pacific time, and I&#8217;m lost.<br \/>\n&#8220;Try Hofsa&#8217;s Haus. Pink building.<br \/>\nTake a right at the next street, then a left.<br \/>\nThe bathroom is right there.&#8221;<br \/>\nPointing.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t remember the bathroom,<br \/>\nonly the relief, ready to try again.<br \/>\nFollow her directions to the pink<br \/>\nGerman motel. No one answers<br \/>\nthe bell. No one answers the phone.<br \/>\nI have no where to go, to be.<br \/>\nI sit on the hood of the yellow Camaro<br \/>\ntop down, palms flattened on warm steel.<br \/>\nI can smell salt and stone. The sky<br \/>\nmatches my shirt; there is a noticeable absence<br \/>\nof bugs, of humidity. I lay back,<br \/>\nthree feet of hair propped under my head.<br \/>\nI could sleep here. I could live here<br \/>\nin this one square mile town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fluorescents buzz and hum, an old golfer on the muted tv, the only lights in this place. 1am Pacific time, and I&#8217;m lost. &#8220;Try Hofsa&#8217;s Haus. Pink building. Take a right at the next street, then a left. The bathroom is right there.&#8221; Pointing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174","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\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33228,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33174\/revisions\/33228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}