{"id":1517,"date":"2021-04-18T10:18:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T18:18:56","slug":"still-life-in-a-hearse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"Still Life in a Hearse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">we bought for fifteen dollars, black and rangy,\u00a0\nparked in the darkness of an abandoned car wash,\u00a0\u00a0\nwhile in the morning his moonface hung over me,\u00a0\na redundant sun. This rodeo of a ride had no reverse,\u00a0\n\nmade a poor case for living the free and easy life,\u00a0\nits carcass often stuck in the hospital no parking zone.\u00a0\nStill, it\u2019s where I landed, this cheap constellation\u00a0\nof rays and cones, this hairy-headed boy who pursued me,\u00a0\n\nensnared me, freed me from the navy\u2019s\u00a0swabbies, could drop\u00a0\nacid, smoke dope, but couldn\u2019t afford a room. Days\u00a0\nwe lounged contentedly in the casket wagon, maybe walking\u00a0\nto the dairy to devour hot fudge sundaes where he\u2019d describe\u00a0\n\nluminous planets, a bloom of sunbow rays.\u00a0\nSome regret the loose track of the past, the ride\u00a0\u00a0\nthrough crumpled days, but I think it's sorrowful\u00a0\nto get your back up over missteps, divide life\u00a0\n\ninto what is and what was, so I\u2019ve combed\u00a0\nthe limber lines of once upon a time, consulted\u00a0\nthe oracle, embraced the train of shallow days,\u00a0\nand pose content in the shadow of my lost insolence.\u00a0\n\nCrab Creek Review\nSpring 2017<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>we bought for fifteen dollars, black and rangy,\u00a0 parked in the darkness of an abandoned car wash,\u00a0\u00a0 while in the morning his moonface hung over me,\u00a0 a redundant sun. This rodeo of a ride had no reverse,\u00a0 made a poor case for living the free and easy life,\u00a0 its carcass often stuck in the hospital &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/?p=1517\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still Life in a Hearse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judykaber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}