{"id":2194,"date":"2014-03-23T23:25:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2017-07-11T23:05:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T23:05:48","slug":"the-way-of-things-by-dave-cowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-way-of-things-by-dave-cowie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way of Things by Dave Cowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/writingsense\/artwork-of-eduardo-kobra\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2195 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kobramuri.jpg\" alt=\"kobramuri\" width=\"374\" height=\"375\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kobramuri.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kobramuri-300x300.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 374px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 374\/375;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NYC art by Eduardo Kobra. Click the image for more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Way of Things<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Dave Cowie<\/p>\n<p>I was in the parking lot<br \/>\nover on Hillside<br \/>\nwith Preston and Spider.<br \/>\nYou didn&#8217;t show.<\/p>\n<p>The sun rose high<br \/>\nand then dripped down low<br \/>\nscorching the concrete.<br \/>\nWe split a six pack.<\/p>\n<p>People living in the real world<br \/>\ncame and went<br \/>\ncarrying their paper bags<br \/>\nof workaday crap.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in that beat-up truck<br \/>\ncigarette holes in the seats<br \/>\nsweating and joking<br \/>\nwe forgot why we were even there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the parking lot<br \/>\nover on Hillside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}