{"id":2286,"date":"2014-02-22T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:15:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:15:56","slug":"deserts-are-for-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/deserts-are-for-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Deserts Are For Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by<\/em>\u00a0<em>Ian Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>crossed at el paso<br \/>\ncruising north on 85<br \/>\nradio on real country.<br \/>\nwe stopped once in<br \/>\ncruces at the brew-<\/p>\n<p>thru and armed with turkey<br \/>\nsublime and chaser we veered\u2014<br \/>\nveered, as in we wheel spun<br \/>\nthe truck\u2014onto old 52.<\/p>\n<p>that\u2019s 85 from the line<br \/>\n(or 10 to 25)<br \/>\nand past T and C, and then<br \/>\na hard dirt left.<\/p>\n<p>on the map it was called a<br \/>\nroad, but it wasn\u2019t so<br \/>\nmuch as dried mud tracks \u2018cross<br \/>\ncratered moon. \u00a0the big<br \/>\nempty we called it, and<br \/>\ntook drinks.<\/p>\n<p>her hand on my leg<br \/>\npressing hard<br \/>\nwe sure are haulin\u2019<br \/>\nass, now, she\u2019d say and<br \/>\nwhoop, and squeeze, and<\/p>\n<p>press. albuturkey bound<br \/>\nwhere things soon spun<br \/>\napart and where my<br \/>\nheart, drained and dry,<br \/>\nwas left back there<br \/>\nin dust and desert.<br \/>\neternity is<\/p>\n<p>nothing to shoot for. get<br \/>\nyourself onto old 52 and tell<br \/>\nme I\u2019m wrong. meanwhile,<br \/>\nangels get feathered wings, and<br \/>\nwhen they do they<br \/>\nfly off \u00a0into very large arrays<br \/>\nof white and blue<\/p>\n<p>[typography font=&#8221;Droid Sans Mono&#8221; size=&#8221;9&#8243; size_format=&#8221;px&#8221;]Originally from western Maryland, I.S. Hughes has called Seattle home for the past 17 years. He is currently a student at Bellevue College and works at the college radio station, KBCS, as producer and host, where he has figured out how to get paid to listen to dusty old albums.[\/typography]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Ian Hughes crossed at el paso cruising north on 85 radio on real country. we stopped once in cruces at the brew- thru and armed with turkey sublime and chaser we veered\u2014 veered, as in we wheel spun the truck\u2014onto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/deserts-are-for-lovers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}