{"id":1246,"date":"2021-10-29T10:25:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2021-10-29T10:27:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T17:27:11","slug":"directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2021\/10\/29\/directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-10.03.50-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-10.03.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"444\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-10.03.50-AM.png 550w, https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-29-at-10.03.50-AM-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">All your life<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve been<br \/>\noriented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">West<br \/>\na half-mile to<br \/>\nthat school<br \/>\nwhere you\u2019ll be<br \/>\ntaught to<br \/>\nget in line,<br \/>\nboys here,<br \/>\ngirls over there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">South<br \/>\nfour blocks to<br \/>\nthe church<br \/>\nwhere you\u2019ll<br \/>\nlearn to sit<br \/>\nstill<br \/>\nand learn that<br \/>\nyou\u2019re a sinner<br \/>\nand that leads to<br \/>\nSomeone\u2019s<br \/>\ndeath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">East<br \/>\nto work<br \/>\nfor the least<br \/>\nthey\u2019ll have to<br \/>\npay you<br \/>\nto give them<br \/>\nyour best<br \/>\nwaking hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Then North<br \/>\ninto the<br \/>\nOld Country,<br \/>\nand by Old<br \/>\nthey mean<br \/>\nyou\u2019re history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">I have an idea:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Let\u2019s stop<br \/>\ntaking directions<br \/>\nand get<br \/>\ndisoriented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>(Photo by Jon Tyson; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Directions All your life you\u2019ve been oriented. West a half-mile to that school where you\u2019ll be taught to get in line, boys here, girls over there. South four blocks to the church where you\u2019ll learn to sit still and learn that you\u2019re a sinner and that leads to Someone\u2019s death. East to work for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}