{"id":1431,"date":"2012-11-03T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:31:02","slug":"the-loneliest-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"The Loneliest Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1431\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div>Found myself on the&nbsp;loneliest&nbsp;road<\/div>\n<div>Not alone but leaning that way<\/div>\n<div>Straight shot valleys and twisting grades<\/div>\n<div>Hard to find a&nbsp;rhythm&nbsp;in this desert air<\/div>\n<div>I pulled over for the silence<\/div>\n<div>Key withdrawn and daylight Tinnitus<\/div>\n<div>Left with the sounds of my vibrating body<\/div>\n<div>Still moving while standing still<\/div>\n<div>The truck came slowly from miles away<\/div>\n<div>Passed me while I watched a scavenger circle<\/div>\n<div>All of a sudden busy at grid point nowhere<\/div>\n<div>A snapshot of the commerce of survival<\/div>\n<div>That afternoon I lost my faith<\/div>\n<div>On a freshly paved mountain switchback<\/div>\n<div>Years of confident driving felled by the route<\/div>\n<div>To feel ever more lonely on this lonely road<\/div>\n<div>Forcing my eyes uncrossed again<\/div>\n<div>The oncoming count from two to one<\/div>\n<div>Glasses stacked upon wrinkled nose<\/div>\n<div>Revisionist eyesight joins the story<\/div>\n<div>What I saw, who was there, feelings at mile markers<\/div>\n<div>Understanding the importance of the loneliest road<\/div>\n<div>And how it can be anywhere you want it to be.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found myself on the&nbsp;loneliest&nbsp;road Not alone but leaning that way Straight shot valleys and twisting grades Hard to find a&nbsp;rhythm&nbsp;in this desert air I pulled over for the silence Key withdrawn and daylight Tinnitus Left with the sounds of my vibrating body Still moving while standing still The truck came slowly from miles away Passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/curve.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peNcU-n5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}