{"id":539,"date":"2020-06-15T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/?p=539"},"modified":"2020-06-13T19:54:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T19:54:43","slug":"on-the-lonesome-road-behind-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2020\/06\/15\/on-the-lonesome-road-behind-her\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On The Lonesome Road Behind Her&#8221; by Andy Betz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>I crossed through North Dakota<br>On a quest only know to me<br>It started with a lady<br>Who hailed from Tennessee<br>With hair of fire <br>And eyes to match<br>Her fury set <br>As a briar patch<br>She left some shattered dreams<br>On the lonesome road behind her<br><br>In Kansas she was Miss Kitty<br>In Texas she was Madam Red<br>When I caught up with her in Saint Lou<br>Her story endured in my head<br>A wild mustang<br>Must be broke<br>By a cowboyW<br>ho can stoke<br>A fire hotter than she had felt<br>On the lonesome road behind her<br><br>By midnight, our paths had crossed<br>She coyly told me she was lost<br>An icy heart she could defrost <br>But she never would be bossed<br>This cowboy needs<br>A wife whose true<br>I proposed midstride<br>She said, \u201cadieu\u201d<br>Leaving a trail of dust to toss<br>On the lonesome road behind her<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Andy Betz has tutored and taught in excess of 30 years. He lives in 1974, and has been married for 27 years. His works are found everywhere a search engine operates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I crossed through North DakotaOn a quest only know to meIt started with a ladyWho hailed from TennesseeWith hair of fire And eyes to matchHer fury set As a briar patchShe left some shattered dreamsOn the lonesome road behind her In Kansas she was Miss KittyIn Texas she was Madam RedWhen I caught up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/2020\/06\/15\/on-the-lonesome-road-behind-her\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"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-539","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\/2020\/06\/juliane-liebermann-mcPeuT_6xxY-unsplash.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/truechili\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}