{"id":233,"date":"2014-07-19T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=233"},"modified":"2014-07-19T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T17:06:30","slug":"a-bus-ride-through-limbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/07\/19\/a-bus-ride-through-limbo\/","title":{"rendered":"a bus ride through limbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i got on the bus to boston at 8am<br \/>\nwith nothing but a change of clothes<br \/>\na walkman, a book<br \/>\nand a bag of weed<br \/>\nthe road was long, slow<br \/>\nand strange eyes stared at me from all<br \/>\ndirections<br \/>\nthe quiet atmosphere was unsettling<br \/>\nwhat random thoughts were all these folks<br \/>\nthinking<br \/>\ni wondered, pondered, then thought better of it<br \/>\nthe book I carried was dull<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t even remember what it was<br \/>\nbut it kept me distracted<br \/>\nthe quiet tension was beginning to grate on my nerves<br \/>\nglances were exchanged<br \/>\nthen, finally I played some ozzy to break the silence<br \/>\nwe stopped at a liquor store in New Hampshire<br \/>\ni was too young to buy booze<br \/>\nbut a cool cat went in and got me some tequila<br \/>\nwe drank and i rolled a big joint<br \/>\nwe smoked, and toked, and<br \/>\ntalked and laughed<br \/>\nno one seemed to care<br \/>\nin fact we attracted quite a crowd<br \/>\npeople are more friendly when there&#8217;s pot and booze<br \/>\nfloating around<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\nit was time to resume the trip<br \/>\nwe shuffled hesitantly back on the bus<br \/>\nquiet again almost dreamy<br \/>\ni thought about sleep, but you really cant sleep<br \/>\non a bus with so many strangers<br \/>\nstaring out the window stoned<br \/>\nthe rest of the ride seemed to fly by<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t remember much after that<br \/>\nlife seemed blurry<br \/>\nwhen i arrived in boston<br \/>\ni felt lost, such a big city<br \/>\nand I was so small<br \/>\nwhere was my friend?<br \/>\nafter awhile i saw him coming,<br \/>\nlittle did I know<br \/>\nthat the real trip was about to begin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}