{"id":12739,"date":"2020-02-05T23:56:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T04:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=12739"},"modified":"2020-02-06T00:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T05:08:05","slug":"the-left-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/02\/05\/the-left-side\/","title":{"rendered":"the left side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How different the world looks<br \/>\nSimply by sitting on the left side of the bus<br \/>\nInstead of your usual spot,<br \/>\nOn the right<br \/>\nA symmetry of your everyday routine,<br \/>\nLost in your love for reliability.<br \/>\nOf sitting in the same spot, every time.<br \/>\nThe route is even unfamiliar now,<br \/>\nAll these trees and roads and buildings<br \/>\nThat you were on the other side of,<br \/>\nthe whole half of the world you did not see<br \/>\nUnknown to you, and would have remained unknown<br \/>\nHad someone not taken your unassigned, assigned seat<br \/>\nOn the bus today<\/p>\n<p>And this is just small in terms of what you know it really means,<br \/>\nHow we only see things one way<br \/>\nAnd never from the view of the<br \/>\nPeople across the street<br \/>\nAnd when we finally muster courage<br \/>\nTo step across our boundary<br \/>\nthat we set for ourselves,<br \/>\nWe are uncoordinated, unfamiliar, uncomfortable,<br \/>\nAnd even lost<br \/>\nIn all this, we learn<br \/>\nThe grass is just as green from the other window,<br \/>\nAnd perhaps it is our view that is tainted<br \/>\nBy sitting so long in one spot,<br \/>\nAnd never trying a different window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How different the world looks Simply by sitting on the left side of the bus Instead of your usual spot, On the right A symmetry of your everyday routine, Lost in your love for reliability. Of sitting in the same spot, every time. The route is even unfamiliar now, All these trees and roads and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2207,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12739\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}