{"id":94780,"date":"2021-06-26T17:34:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94780"},"modified":"2021-06-28T17:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:13:52","slug":"keys-to-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/keys-to-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Keys to Your Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keys to Your Car<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You handed coveted car keys to your teenagers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">swallowed gnawing fears &amp; worst-case scenarios<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gave pieces of control to a god of independence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that deity empowered with coming of age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bumps along the road have softened with time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">speeding tickets of sixteen year olds racing to LA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You didn\u2019t need details, flat tires on interstates,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">near miss passes over double yellow lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Somehow a familiar conversation lands in your<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">living room &amp; email box, not so subtle, fifty years later:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suggestions that it might be time to hand over\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">your coveted set of car keys, swallow headstrong pride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">throw away your freedom, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but make it your decision&#8230;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How is coming of age, joyous, but aging simply sucks?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">June 26, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keys to Your Car &nbsp; You handed coveted car keys to your teenagers, swallowed gnawing fears &amp; worst-case scenarios &nbsp; gave pieces of control to a god of independence that deity empowered with coming of age. &nbsp; Bumps along the road have softened with time,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94780","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\/3467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103681,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94780\/revisions\/103681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}