{"id":847,"date":"2012-03-21T12:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=847"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:12:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:12:44","slug":"sunday-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/sunday-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by<\/em> <em><a title=\"Sunday Drive\" href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=377&amp;action=edit\">Alyssa Anne Westgate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our holy Sunday ritual was to drive<br \/>\nWest on the main road of our town,<br \/>\nthe only one that cut clean through<br \/>\nso we could bleed out like mercury from<br \/>\na broken thermometer<\/p>\n<p>to a movie theater between Lockport<br \/>\nand East Amherst.<br \/>\nAcross its large screens, images of life in Technicolor,<br \/>\na promise that some \u201cother\u201d world might exist simultaneously<br \/>\nwith ours (a study in black and white&#8211;denial of the grey)<\/p>\n<p>More potent than churches with polished wooden pews<br \/>\nanchoring our small town to Earth,<br \/>\nthe screens, taut and silent standing like masts,<br \/>\ncarried us to freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Our heads bowed, like the pious, but rather as seedlings underground<br \/>\nfeeling our way towards the unseen yet promised land.<br \/>\nOur hymn, the humming of the car\u2019s engine as we\u2019d head West,<br \/>\nlike pilgrims trying to project ourselves out of fractured film.<\/p>\n<p>The sun enfolding in the open Sky like burning manuscripts,<br \/>\na prayer delivered to the invisible Infinite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alyssa Anne Westgate Our holy Sunday ritual was to drive West on the main road of our town, the only one that cut clean through so we could bleed out like mercury from a broken thermometer to a movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/sunday-drive\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-edition","category-previous-editions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}