{"id":355,"date":"2011-05-26T11:41:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/?p=355"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T14:49:23","slug":"small-towns-are-passing-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/small-towns-are-passing-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Towns are Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>By Wesley McNair<\/strong><\/p>\n\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2011\/05\/smalltowns-audio.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<h4><em>Small towns are passing<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Small towns are passing<br \/>\ninto the rearview<br \/>\nmirrors of our cars.<br \/>\nThe white houses<br \/>\nare moving away,<br \/>\nwrapping trees<br \/>\naround themselves,<br \/>\nand stores are taking<br \/>\ntheir gas pumps<br \/>\ndown the street<br \/>\nbackwards. Just like that<br \/>\nwhole families picnicking<br \/>\non their lawns tilt<br \/>\nover the hill,<br \/>\nand kids on bikes<br \/>\nride toward us<br \/>\noff the horizon,<br \/>\nleaving no trace<br \/>\nof where they have gone.<br \/>\nSigns turn back and start<br \/>\nafter them. Packs of mailboxes,<br \/>\nlike dogs, chase them<br \/>\naround corner after corner.<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,577,302],"tags":[18,518,394,223],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12915,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}