{"id":4660,"date":"2014-02-09T10:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2014-02-09T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:59:07","slug":"the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2014\/02\/09\/the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to get in the car and drive.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a decision made after long brooding stares into my ceiling in the dead of night, just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up this morning to the sun rays nipping at my eyelashes and my body pulling me out of the bed and into the shower.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled as I washed my face and turned on the morning radio to listen to some Oldies, it wasn&#8217;t a decision made after I reached<\/p>\n<p>some\u00c2\u00a0climactic limit.<\/p>\n<p>No, I think my limit was two months ago when my boss told me they were looking to cut people&#8217;s hours, which translated to me<\/p>\n<p>packing\u00c2\u00a0up my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>My limit was two months ago when my landlord got fed up with the me being overdue for the bulk of the lease.<\/p>\n<p>When I got kicked out and moved back in with my parents.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t a decision at all, this is me getting into my car and driving.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where and to whom I plan on going, but the road with its broken, bouncy potholes and me with my shattered, silly life<\/p>\n<p>are\u00c2\u00a0perfect for each other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/f1f6683f5eada184f832d58f589a0c1b\/tumblr_n0p8nhP1r71t0bh0do1_500.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"572\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to get in the car and drive. It wasn&#8217;t a decision made after long brooding stares into my ceiling in the dead of night, just the opposite. I woke up this morning to the sun rays nipping at my eyelashes and my body pulling me out of the bed and into the shower. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}