{"id":96,"date":"2017-07-25T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T20:41:32","slug":"steve-mcqueen-of-ladner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/2017\/07\/25\/steve-mcqueen-of-ladner\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve McQueen of Ladner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, do rats dream?<br \/>\nWhatever possessed him<br \/>\nTo build his dream home under the hood<br \/>\nOf our 2012 Mustang?<\/p>\n<p>Did he have dreams?<br \/>\nOf rising up<br \/>\nOut of his gutter life of<br \/>\nRummaging, pillaging, scrounging<br \/>\nVermin of 52 Avenue<\/p>\n<p>What was he thinking when he heard<br \/>\nThe click of the key,<br \/>\nThe slam of the door<br \/>\nSucking in his tiny breath<br \/>\nReady to let his mottled fur fly<br \/>\nLiving for the thrill<br \/>\nAs he rode that 350 horse power<br \/>\nthrough the streets of Ladner<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When he sat<br \/>\nHunkered down under the hood<br \/>\nAdrenaline surging<br \/>\nIn the Save-on-Foods parking lot<br \/>\nDid he know what he was in for again?<br \/>\nAddicted to the rush?<\/p>\n<p>Is that what drew him back last night?<br \/>\nAs his entrails exploded,<br \/>\nDreaming in his Warfarin haze.<br \/>\nSteve McQueen of Ladner,<br \/>\nWrithing under the hood<br \/>\nA life misspent on cars<br \/>\nEnding in intravascular coagulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, do rats dream? Whatever possessed him To build his dream home under the hood Of our 2012 Mustang? Did he have dreams? Of rising up Out of his gutter life of Rummaging, pillaging, scrounging Vermin of 52 Avenue What was he thinking when he heard The click of the key, The slam of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled445\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}