{"id":7165,"date":"2013-01-25T11:50:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=7165"},"modified":"2013-01-25T11:50:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:50:45","slug":"small-towns-are-passing-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/small-towns-are-passing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Towns Are Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<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><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7165\" data-postid=\"7165\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7165 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small towns are passing into the rearview mirrors of our cars. The white houses are moving away, wrapping trees around themselves, and stores are taking their gas pumps down the street backwards. Just like that whole families picnicking on their lawns tilt over the hill, and kids on bikes ride toward us off the horizon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165"}],"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=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7165\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}