{"id":7236,"date":"2018-05-22T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2024-01-23T02:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T02:33:24","slug":"the-us-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2018\/05\/22\/the-us-101\/","title":{"rendered":"The US-101"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just as I thought I had finally broke free
I saw three miles of taillights in front of me
The city was so grey today
And I\u2019d almost reached the sun
But it was bumper to bumper on the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an exit to the right.
I\u2019d turn on my blinker,
But it\u2019s not polite to do that on the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traffic inches forward on a one way street
Lined with clapboard houses I could never afford
Oh Lord, you won\u2019t even buy me a Honda Accord
The street signs have an italicized cartoon font
You can even live here if you want
There\u2019s Sothebys and Keller and Century 21
With convenient beachfront access and the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are no restaurants here,
There are no stores.
I wonder what people in this town even eat.
They must breathe in the air and get the nutrition they need from their earbuds and iPods as they jog with their dogs
Making better time in the bike lane
Than all the people like me
Trying to break free
From the traffic situation on the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m being passed by a skateboard
The occasional bike
A waving shirtless jogger
Some guy in a green Prius
Who must think that his car is a bike
I\u2019ll see him again soon on the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At every other intersection
A disembodied voice says \u201cturn left here.\u201d
No thank you.
I am not going anywhere near the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until I reach the reason for the delay:
A woman with a wrecked Mercedes
Being towed away
Second driver today
Who had managed to have spun
Across all three lanes of the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrapping a fur coat around her tightly
It\u2019s cold outside but she looks okay
Her yellow lab is relaxing in the sun
With his tongue sticking out,
Tail happily wagging
It looks like he\u2019s been having fun today
On the US-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top down at the rest stop in Gaviota
With a wide open throttle
Escaping the last several inches
of the traffic and the smog from LA
Where the freeway ends
The PCH begins
And I have exactly three hours left
Until the ranger chases me away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just as I thought I had finally broke freeI saw three miles of taillights in front of meThe city was so grey todayAnd I\u2019d almost reached the sunBut it was bumper to bumper on the US-101 There\u2019s an exit to the right.I\u2019d turn on my blinker,But it\u2019s not polite to do that on the US-101 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15278,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/15278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}