{"id":3861,"date":"2019-06-21T11:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:51:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:51:45","slug":"barely-south-review-publishes-cars-with-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/archives\/3861","title":{"rendered":"Barely South Review Publishes &#8220;Cars with Strangers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"700\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRCover.jpg 463w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRCover-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/typehousemagazine.com\/\">Barely South Review<\/a><\/i>, the literary journal of Old Dominion University&#8217;s Creative Writing program,\u00a0recently published Storey Clayton&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/barelysouthreview.com\/cars-with-strangers\/\">Cars with Strangers<\/a>,&#8221; an excerpt from\u00a0his ridesharing memoir <i><a href=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/DrivingForU.htm\">Driving for U:\u00a0Behind the Wheel of a New Orleans Uber<\/a><\/i>.  While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Barely-South-Review-Spring-2019\/dp\/1090637748\">print copy of the work<\/a> was available three months ago, the story was <a href=\"https:\/\/barelysouthreview.com\/cars-with-strangers\/\">published online<\/a> within the last 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth Uber excerpt and tenth short nonfiction work of Storey&#8217;s to be published since October, this essay connects Storey&#8217;s time driving for Uber to a late-night ride offered to a stranger at Waffle House, his own first Uber ride, and the infamous milk carton kids of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Shayne Clark and his team at <i>Barely South<\/i> for selecting this work!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barelysouthreview.com\/cars-with-strangers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRPreview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"598\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3863\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRPreview.png 700w, http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/BSRPreview-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely South Review, the literary journal of Old Dominion University&#8217;s Creative Writing program,\u00a0recently published Storey Clayton&#8217;s &#8220;Cars with Strangers,&#8221; an excerpt from\u00a0his ridesharing memoir Driving for U:\u00a0Behind the Wheel of a New Orleans Uber. While the print copy of the work was available three months ago, the story was published online within the last 48 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,83,32,30,87],"tags":[5,84,72,70,88],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-adventures-in-uber","category-telling-stories","category-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate","category-the-mfa-years","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-adventures-in-uber","tag-telling-stories","tag-the-agony-of-the-wait-is-the-agony-of-debate","tag-the-mfa-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}