{"id":309,"date":"2020-03-24T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:22:25","slug":"54-chevy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/54-chevy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;54 Chevy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a>\u201954 Chevy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was faded blue with a white\ntop.&nbsp; What I remember most are trips <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>out West taken most every\nsummer.&nbsp; That car took us to Yellowstone,\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grand Tetons, Bryce\u2019s Canyon, Wind\nRivers and to New England <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for the Presidential Range in New\nHampshire.&nbsp; Dad built storage boxes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to fit in the back to carry all our\ncamping gear: tent, sleeping bags, utensils.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother and I sat in the back\ndoing the usual brother\/sister stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMom, he\u2019s on my side of the seat!\u201d and\n\u201cWhen will we get there?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad took care of that car: changed\nthe oil, checked the timing, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gapped the new spark plugs.&nbsp; We had to get a new car for our new hobby: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>horses. The old Chevy just couldn\u2019t\npull a trailer.&nbsp; &nbsp;I don\u2019t remember <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>what happened to the old car, just\nthat another Chevy replaced it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had several cars since, two Vegas,\nthree Subarus, and a Nissan truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of those cars had lots of miles\non them but none has ever taken <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>me as far as that old Chevy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Muddy\nRiver Poetry Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Spring\n2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201954 Chevy It was faded blue with a white top.&nbsp; What I remember most are trips out West taken most every summer.&nbsp; That car took us to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, Bryce\u2019s Canyon, Wind Rivers and to New England for the Presidential Range in New Hampshire.&nbsp; Dad built storage boxes to fit in the back to&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/54-chevy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8217;54 Chevy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}