{"id":49719,"date":"2019-06-22T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49719"},"modified":"2019-06-22T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:08:23","slug":"the-cab-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-cab-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CAB RIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE CAB RIDE<\/p>\n<p>That night in the cab<br \/>\nIt was dark and late<br \/>\nI was drunk and drab<\/p>\n<p>End of the night date<br \/>\nleft me all alone, a stab<br \/>\nthat night in the cab<\/p>\n<p>My heart bled<br \/>\nI felt betrayed, alone<br \/>\nWhy had he fled?<\/p>\n<p>My makeup off, hair blown<br \/>\nthat night in the cab<br \/>\nI can only bemoan<\/p>\n<p>My fate, my baggage<br \/>\nI drag it behind me, so wrong<br \/>\nDriver became savage<\/p>\n<p>That night in the cab<br \/>\nA beast awakened<br \/>\nHe did not caress, but grab<\/p>\n<p>I felt abandoned<br \/>\nme and my mysterious ride<br \/>\nthat night in the cab<\/p>\n<p>That night in the cab<br \/>\nI grew up fast<br \/>\nand was left feeling sad<\/p>\n<p>At my back door, past<br \/>\ncurfews and sanity<br \/>\nNightmare memories of the night in the cab\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9  Diane Morinich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CAB RIDE That night in the cab It was dark and late I was drunk and drab End of the night date left me all alone, a stab that night in the cab My heart bled I felt betrayed, alone Why had he fled?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719","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\/1113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49733,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49719\/revisions\/49733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}