{"id":3704,"date":"2021-05-31T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2021-05-31T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:51:03","slug":"laughing-and-left-hanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/31\/laughing-and-left-hanging\/","title":{"rendered":"laughing and left hanging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>headless, hypnotized, and driven<br \/>\ncruising like a ghost<br \/>\non a blank saturday afternoon<br \/>\nthe music is low<br \/>\nand the mood is high<br \/>\nthe sky is streaked<br \/>\nwith adventurous indifference<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s rarely any destination<br \/>\nworth considering<\/p>\n<p>so..<br \/>\njust drive<br \/>\ndrive into the sun<br \/>\ndrive like a curious robot<br \/>\nleft on hold<br \/>\ndrive past faded fields<br \/>\nthat remember longer days<br \/>\nand empty houses<br \/>\nthat would rather forget<br \/>\ndrive past mercenaries marching<br \/>\nto machine gun melodies<br \/>\nand vacant shops<br \/>\nwaiting for revolution<\/p>\n<p>distraction, reaction,<br \/>\nand the rhythm of<br \/>\nrandom encounters<br \/>\nsoftly saving<br \/>\nthis sample of sanity<br \/>\nsometimes a lonely car trip<br \/>\nis the perfect way<br \/>\nto clear the mind<br \/>\nand gain perspective<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/524-laughing-and-left-hanging.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3710\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/524-laughing-and-left-hanging-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"524-laughing-and-left-hanging\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/524-laughing-and-left-hanging-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/524-laughing-and-left-hanging-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/524-laughing-and-left-hanging.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/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-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}