{"id":2923,"date":"2024-03-11T08:14:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:43:36","slug":"fender-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/03\/11\/fender-bender\/","title":{"rendered":"Fender Bender"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Fender Bender<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say
\nYou\u2019re on
\na Road Trip.<\/p>\n

A one-hundred proof
\nIntoxication of
\nan Adventure,
\nwith stops at
\nDisneyland and
\nMardi Gras in New Orleans and
\nBroadway in NYC and
\nthe Lincoln Memorial in DC and
\nthe Grand Canyon and \u2026
\nfill in Your own
\nDaydreams.<\/p>\n

But what if
\nYour Car
\nbroke down in Abilene
\nand cost you
\na day-or-three or
\nyou dinged up a fender
\non a snowy day
\nin Santa Fe?<\/p>\n

What will You
\nRemember
\na Year or so
\nfrom now?<\/p>\n

The fender-bender
\nin November or
\nThanksgiving Dinner
\nat the Cowgirl BBQ?<\/p>\n

Would You
\nIdentify with Your Car,
\nor When You
\nWished Upon a Star?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll grant You
\nIt\u2019s not quite
\nthe Same,
\nbut I Wonder if<\/p>\n

Sometimes
\nMy Forever Soul,
\non this
\nRoadtrip of a Lifetime,
\nhas to Laugh<\/p>\n

at how much
\nI Furrow My Brow,
\nWorried about
\nHow Well I\u2019m Driving
\nThis Four-Limbed
\nFleshmobile.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Markus Spiske; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Fender Bender Let\u2019s say You\u2019re on a Road Trip. A one-hundred proof Intoxication of an Adventure, with stops at Disneyland and Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Broadway in NYC and the Lincoln Memorial in DC and the Grand Canyon and \u2026 fill in Your own Daydreams. But what if Your Car broke down […]<\/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-2923","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\/2923","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=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}