{"id":2911,"date":"2016-02-09T02:34:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T02:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2016-02-09T02:34:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T02:34:01","slug":"roadside-by-theresa-lockhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/roadside-by-theresa-lockhart\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside by Theresa Lockhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2912 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart.jpg\" alt=\"lockhart\" width=\"677\" height=\"324\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart.jpg 1289w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/lockhart-624x299.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 677px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 677\/324;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Roadside<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Theresa Lockhart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>People used to flick cassettes from car windows,<br \/>\nKeep driving, laughing, rejecting songs no<br \/>\nLonger worth hearing, in their opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Roadside ribbons blow casually upward,<br \/>\nPretending they are attached to balloons<br \/>\nThat never touch the ground,<br \/>\nInstead they settle in static coils amidst weeds and gravel.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchhikers,<br \/>\nAbandoned vegetable stands,<br \/>\nCrosses in memoriam and<br \/>\nKitsch attractions,<br \/>\nWere these tossed out a window as well?<\/p>\n<p>If picked up and gently unwound, would someone<br \/>\nElse be able to hear the songs of our past?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Theresa Lockhart lives and teaches in Michigan. Her work is forthcoming from\u00a0<em>Kaleidotrope<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa Lockhart lives and teaches in Michigan. Her work is forthcoming from Kaleidotrope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2912,"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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","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=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}