{"id":817,"date":"2010-09-15T17:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=817"},"modified":"2010-09-15T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:18:42","slug":"new-prose-jake-david-is-highway-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-prose-jake-david-is-highway-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"New prose: Jake David is highway dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Highway&#39;s Dream<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Will I ever wander the circles of a highway&#39;s dream that cries like lovers of a reminiscent dawn, caught-up in their own beauty of the world? Searching for an undiscovered, once-sacred truth of humdrum compromises circling around each era&#39;s sun. Ashtray moons once regarded by peasants-turned-servants that now sit on cardboard boxes, eating off the soles of folks that earn their income by manufacturing zoo cages on every half-mile mark of a highway screaming &#8220;No! I am for those who are free!&#8221; Using its guttered shrieks for life&#39;s knowledges to create symphonies of winds playing Mahler, searching for a fluttering chance of being beautiful again.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Jake David <\/span>lives near Cornwall, ON. Though not a formally published author or poet, his imagery has flashed across the screens of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Soundless, ditch<\/span>, and has upcoming work in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Battered Suitcase<\/span>. He has proudly been rejected three consecutive times by <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Word Riot<\/span>. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highway&#39;s DreamWill I ever wander the circles of a highway&#39;s dream that cries like lovers of a reminiscent dawn, caught-up in their own beauty of the world? Searching for an undiscovered, once-sacred truth of humdrum compromises circling around each era&#39;s sun. Ashtray moons once regarded by peasants-turned-servants that now sit on cardboard boxes, eating off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}