{"id":3528,"date":"2017-04-06T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2017-04-06T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:01:34","slug":"shoes-on-the-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/3528","title":{"rendered":"Shoes on the Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoes on the Highway<br \/>\nby Storey Clayton<br \/>\n6 April 2017<\/p>\n<p><i>I saw two shoes on the highway<br \/>\none<br \/>\nand then another<br \/>\nas I sped up the overpass<br \/>\nthey were strewn, not placed<br \/>\non the road, not the shoulder<br \/>\nclearly flung from great speed<\/p>\n<p>and I stopped to imagine<br \/>\nthe scene<br \/>\nkids or friends or frenemies<br \/>\ncareening through the night<br \/>\none joking, one not amused<br \/>\nas the joker hung them by the laces outside<br \/>\nto wave tauntingly in the windy wake<\/p>\n<p>did they let go or lose control<br \/>\nthe question<br \/>\nand how real was their contrition<br \/>\nconfronted by the anger of the shoeless<br \/>\nsaying I\u2019m sorry through uproarious laughter<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t mean it, the retort<br \/>\nI do, I\u2019m sorry, but did you see those shoes fly<\/p>\n<p>I think this is always<br \/>\nthe way<br \/>\nwhen someone loses something<br \/>\nwhen it\u2019s taken and thrown out the window<br \/>\nsomeone thinks it\u2019s funny<br \/>\nthe loser knows it isn\u2019t<br \/>\nand the rest of us have to swerve to dodge the fallout<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoes on the Highway by Storey Clayton 6 April 2017 I saw two shoes on the highway one and then another as I sped up the overpass they were strewn, not placed on the road, not the shoulder clearly flung from great speed and I stopped to imagine the scene kids or friends or frenemies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,20,32],"tags":[5,62,72],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-primary-sources","category-telling-stories","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-primary-sources","tag-telling-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}