{"id":4165,"date":"2020-10-02T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2023-01-27T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T04:39:21","slug":"thoroughfares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/thoroughfares\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoroughfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-339\" class=\"post-339 page type-page status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>High in the Sierra the Interstate cuts<br \/>\nIts own course above the dry creek bed,<br \/>\nits swerves matching the mountain sides<br \/>\nonly where math and matter marry to carve<br \/>\nthe slopes I speed along, marvelling<br \/>\nat the mileage I make until, below,<br \/>\nI catch sight of a strip of buckled asphalt,<br \/>\nremnant of a turnpike no longer on the map.<br \/>\nThis is how we age. Steep crests once<br \/>\nground up laboriously in low gear are<br \/>\nblasted into empty air. One highway<br \/>\nreplaces another. Weeds take root<br \/>\nin the cracks of a thoroughfare leading<br \/>\nnowhere. Above, traffic moves swiftly on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" data-url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/old-highway\/\">*<\/div>\n<div class=\"at-below-post-page addthis_tool\" style=\"text-align: left;\" data-url=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/inventory\/old-highway\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">A poem I have grown into.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">In 1985 on the Five near Mt Shasta on the way back up to Edmonton, I figured I had lived enough to have seen it all.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Nope. There was much more to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/span><i style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 1rem;\">What I call a mute sonnet, one without rhyme. Aka, a fourteener.<\/i><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High in the Sierra the Interstate cuts Its own course above the dry creek bed, its swerves matching the mountain sides only where math and matter marry to carve the slopes I speed along, marvelling at the mileage I make until, below, I catch sight of a strip of buckled asphalt, remnant of a turnpike &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/thoroughfares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoroughfares&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[15,40,49,66],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-aging","tag-oc","tag-edmonton","tag-mute-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}