{"id":360,"date":"2019-12-15T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=360"},"modified":"2019-12-10T01:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:09:07","slug":"driving-this-stagecoach-by-catherine-gewertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2019\/12\/15\/driving-this-stagecoach-by-catherine-gewertz\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving This Stagecoach by Catherine Gewertz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Driving this stagecoach<br>down a rutted dirt road<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   at top speed<br>the horses are panting hard<br>and the dust crowds my nose<br>The lone passenger, the one in the dark veil,<br>slouches against the cushions,<br>smirking,<br>telling me<br>that all the best things are behind me now.<br>the profound things <br>the sexy things<br>the meaningful things,<br>all behind me now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I\u2019ve got my horses at a gallop<br>and I\u2019ve got a plan<br>There\u2019s a bend up ahead<br>and if I turn the team just right \u2013 <br>sharp &amp; sudden \u2013<br> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   I can flip this coach<br>and crush that passenger<br>I can jump off just in time, like in the movies, with a perfect somersault<br>and walk the rest of the way alone<br>leaving that wrecked stagecoach<br>behind me now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Catherine Gewertz has been a cocktail waitress, garage band singer, pie baker, and typewriter poet-for-hire. To earn a steady living, though, she\u2019s a newspaper reporter. She loves a nice turn around the two-step floor, and a glass of Bourbon, neat.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/jim-strasma-qZxk8F8tE0U-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1705&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}