{"id":4031,"date":"2012-08-17T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=4031"},"modified":"2012-08-17T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T19:09:49","slug":"big-cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/big-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years later<br \/>\nthey arrive on the thruway,<br \/>\npulling winged fenders and smiling<br \/>\na lane wide\u2014big cars,<br \/>\nold floats that took a wrong<br \/>\ncorner somewhere and lost<br \/>\nthe American dream parade. Around them<\/p>\n<p>the strange, grilleless<br \/>\ncars of the future<br \/>\nhum at their tires\u2014tiny aliens<br \/>\nof a planet out of gas.<\/p>\n<p>To think of their long trip<br \/>\njust beginning\u2014the irrepressible fuel<br \/>\nrising everywhere into their tanks!<br \/>\nFor the first time, armrests<br \/>\nunfolded out of seats;<br \/>\nout of the armrests, ashtrays!<br \/>\nMaps fell open to the new roads<\/p>\n<p>which led them, finally, here<br \/>\nto the right lanes of America\u2014<br \/>\nthe antiques of optimism<br \/>\nnobody understands or wants<br \/>\nexcept the poor. Or dictators<\/p>\n<p>driving down boulevards in some country<br \/>\nwhere the poor do not have cars<br \/>\nand run alongside until it seems<br \/>\nthat they themselves are riding<br \/>\non soft shocks, under a sun roof,<br \/>\ntoward the great plenty of the New World.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4031\" data-postid=\"4031\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4031 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years later they arrive on the thruway, pulling winged fenders and smiling a lane wide\u2014big cars, old floats that took a wrong corner somewhere and lost the American dream parade. Around them the strange, grilleless cars of the future hum at their tires\u2014tiny aliens of a planet out of gas. To think of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4031\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}