{"id":2482,"date":"2006-09-01T18:14:29","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T01:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:42:55","slug":"rush-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/09\/01\/rush-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rush Hour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The gray man in the next lane over<br \/>\ndigs into his nose, oblivious<br \/>\nto the fact that there are six lanes<br \/>\nof witnesses to his nasal excavation.<\/p>\n<p>The bumper in front of me touts peace<br \/>\nand the sun winks through a crystal<br \/>\npendant hanging from the rearview mirror<br \/>\nwhile a leather-tanned hand dangles<br \/>\nout the window flicking cigarette ash.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere behind me the air<br \/>\nis punctuated by the seismic bass<br \/>\nthump of some cholo&#8217;s rap music.<br \/>\nWords are garbled but I can feel<br \/>\nthe beat in my bones as Dr. Dre<br \/>\nand Snoop serenade us.<\/p>\n<p>To my left a sleek black Beamer<br \/>\nshelters a woman who appears<br \/>\nto be talking to no one. Then<br \/>\nshe tucks her hair behind her ear<br \/>\nand I see the earpiece. She&#8217;s not<br \/>\ninsane (yet). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush Hour The gray man in the next lane over digs into his nose, oblivious to the fact that there are six lanes of witnesses to his nasal excavation. The bumper in front of me touts peace and the sun winks through a crystal pendant hanging from the rearview mirror while a leather-tanned hand dangles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,28,215,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aenigmas","category-humanities","category-poetry","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10351,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/10351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}