{"id":180,"date":"2022-09-12T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/?post_type=writing&#038;p=180"},"modified":"2022-10-08T11:19:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T18:19:44","slug":"our-love-is-a-4am-car-ride","status":"publish","type":"writing","link":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/writing\/our-love-is-a-4am-car-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"[our love is a 4am car ride]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">behind tempered glass there is only <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">us shielded, tinted, safe and <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">contained<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">windows reflect us- ghosts- against the world as it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">speeds by too fast to be noticed, eyes too unfocused to <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">black leather fire against our skin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">rain pelts against us, twenty miles too far over the radar <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">inside this vessel of space, never stagnant, belonging <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">nowhere<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">resides only the ghosts of our <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">reflections, refractions of who <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">we\u2019re meant to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">those backscattered creatures looking back at us aren\u2019t defined<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">they blur and move in unpredictable ways, some days i can\u2019t tell them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"> apart. some days they don\u2019t look how i remember them at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">a single hand on the wheel veers into your <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">eyes, wide and shakily with black lines <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">reapplied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">you don\u2019t notice, neither do i.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">how many times have those people in the <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">mirror bled into one another?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"genre":[29,26],"year":[44],"class_list":["post-180","writing","type-writing","status-publish","hentry","genre-poetry","genre-writing","year-44"],"acf":{"contributor":"Claire Wilson","bio":"Claire is a 20 year old psychology\/animal science major who loves to write and draw.","text":"","contributor_page":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writing\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/writing"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dekonstruktr.com\/tidepools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}