{"id":37997,"date":"2017-08-05T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37997"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:43:37","slug":"the-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-alley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">The Alley<\/p>\n<p>We remember well the white concrete urban driveway we called \u201cThe Alley\u201d with pairs of tall cedar telephone poles with thick black wires strewn across two parallel blocks of two-story row homes. We boys wore our high-top Keds and Chuck Taylors proudly; we boys who seldom (ever?) played games with girls, games called half-ball, wall-ball, and wire ball; we boys who, all summer long, flipped Topps baseball cards and watched them fall to the ground like helicopters landing on tarmacs; we boys who wrestled on small patches of grass; we boys who fought over \u201csafes\u201d and \u201couts\u201d and \u201cfouls\u201d as we ran bases made of discarded rags, and shot basketballs at painted plywood backboards and orange rims that our dads constructed to \u201ckeep us busy\u201d all day long; we boys who laughed until our stomachs hurt and our eyes watered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">social media<br \/>\nvirtual reality\u2014<br \/>\ngirls no longer left out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alley We remember well the white concrete urban driveway we called \u201cThe Alley\u201d with pairs of tall cedar telephone poles with thick black wires strewn across two parallel blocks of two-story row homes. We boys wore our high-top Keds and Chuck Taylors proudly; we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997","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\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38068,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37997\/revisions\/38068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}