{"id":8955,"date":"2013-06-11T05:53:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=8955"},"modified":"2013-06-11T06:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:03:05","slug":"a-blue-collar-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=8955","title":{"rendered":"A Blue Collar Dusk&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stompin&#8217; out rhythm on metal grates,<br \/>\nPush and grind in the sweat and grime.<br \/>\nUnderneath ribbons of high power lines.<br \/>\nFork lifts.  Air brakes. Clanging steel plates.<\/p>\n<p>On the backroads, near the low bridge,<br \/>\nSynchronized wheels squeal, screech, and whine<br \/>\nWooden trestles shake loaded down by freight.<br \/>\nTrundling past an American asphalt pitted Rhine.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the diesel and the grease<br \/>\nTucked away still thrives a little green oasis.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a working mans Walden Pond,<br \/>\nFor a true blue collar, a real Thoreau escapist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60141310@N00\/8978788947\/\" title=\"IMG_7929 by banjobear, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2842\/8978788947_9aeeb64678.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"600\" alt=\"IMG_7929\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stompin&#8217; out rhythm on metal grates, Push and grind in the sweat and grime. Underneath ribbons of high power lines. Fork lifts. Air brakes. Clanging steel plates. On the backroads, near the low bridge, Synchronized wheels squeal, screech, and whine Wooden trestles shake loaded down by freight. Trundling past an American asphalt pitted Rhine. Amidst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9009,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions\/9009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}