{"id":6439,"date":"2014-01-14T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:33:31","slug":"en-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/en-route\/","title":{"rendered":"En Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EnRoute.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6653\" alt=\"EnRoute\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EnRoute.jpg\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EnRoute.jpg 585w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EnRoute-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/EnRoute-580x580.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A humid morning\u2019s light filters through the mud caked window<\/p>\n<p>Of an ancient burgundy station wagon, casting a sepia tone<\/p>\n<p>Onto cracking leather. The taupe seats are traced with corrugations,<\/p>\n<p>Furrows imprinted by the fidgeting of four small anxious children. The<\/p>\n<p>Bench takes on the characteristics of an exsanguinated brain, whose<\/p>\n<p>Decay is quickened by the picking of four sets of hands, and stained by<\/p>\n<p>The spillage from four small mouths. Couched in the safety of the way-back,<\/p>\n<p>Salvos of crayons sail through the slits of the head rest. Declarations<\/p>\n<p>Of war are met with contestation from the front, the mediator of the<\/p>\n<p>Back seat diplomacy. Wails of ennui, thoughtless teasing and sleeping and<\/p>\n<p>Sounds of windows squeaking up and down harmonize with the roadside din.<\/p>\n<p>Every license plate, espied between long blinks of half sleep, gives rise to<\/p>\n<p>Narratives. Tangents about the lives of that blue sedan driver, the lemon<\/p>\n<p>Faced old lady driving white knuckled, or the mustachioed vagabond who<\/p>\n<p>Pilots the large truck, who chugs his horn at a window straining under the<\/p>\n<p>Weight of pawing hands and eager faces. \u201cThe convertible from Florida deals<\/p>\n<p>Heroine!\u201d, chirps the back seat. \u201cNo it certainly does not!\u201d corrects the driver.<\/p>\n<p>An exasperated push of the electric cigarette lighter prompts a chorus of<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarp Speed!\u201d The humming and buzzing, and eventual inter-galactic<\/p>\n<p>Warfare is met with incremental raisings of the radio. One tired adult steeps<\/p>\n<p>Herself in the monotone of talk radio punctuated by the nuanced<\/p>\n<p>Arguments of, \u201cThis is boring!\u201d Radio comes off, the windows come down, and a<\/p>\n<p>Glorious vacuum, a childless \u2018whoosh\u2019 fills the cabin for at least seven minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A humid morning\u2019s light filters through the mud caked window<\/p>\n<p>Of an ancient burgundy station wagon, casting a sepia tone<\/p>\n<p>Onto cracking leather. The taupe seats are traced with corrugations,<\/p>\n<p>Furrows imprinted by the fidgeting of four small anxious children. The<\/p>\n<p>Bench takes on the characteristics of an exsanguinated brain, whose<\/p>\n<p>Decay is quickened by the picking of four sets of hands, and stained by<\/p>\n<p>The spillage from four small mouths<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":6653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,218,219,199],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gadflyonline.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}