{"id":88,"date":"2008-06-19T18:55:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T08:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cuppagemma.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2019-01-06T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:34:21","slug":"homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Homeward bound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Bedford and Avenue H,<br \/>\nschoolbooks riding unbelted shotgun<br \/>\ncross to Ocean Avenue, not Bay Parkway<br \/>\nweaving with buses, sanitation<br \/>\ntrucks, cement mixers and straight<br \/>\nbacked brick apartment buildings<br \/>\nin red with attached fire escapes<br \/>\nand retirees in folding chairs<\/p>\n<p>Green means go, and the kid<br \/>\nwhose radio outprices his car<br \/>\ncan certainly plow ahead while<br \/>\nI pull over at the fruit shop<br \/>\nwhen the long gray curb smiles<br \/>\n&#8220;space&#8221;, popping my quarter in<br \/>\nleaving like Santa smiling with<br \/>\nbagged nectarines, plums, hot bread<\/p>\n<p>Then take the alphabet<br \/>\ndown past Avenue Z to Voohires<br \/>\nby Lundy&#8217;s once again<br \/>\nmerge on the Belt,<br \/>\nunder the &#8220;El&#8221;, for a moment,<br \/>\nbeside the ocean, for a few more<br \/>\ntill I hit the bridge winding<br \/>\nup Verrazano&#8217;s approach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Take the top level<br \/>\nto feel the wind, and<br \/>\nmerge across impatient lines<br \/>\nto toss out my token,<br \/>\nnow an electric pass<br \/>\nraising that orange arm<br \/>\nwith a startled jerk<br \/>\nto cross more lanes for<\/p>\n<p>Father Capadano Boulevard<br \/>\nSouth Beach, the Basillio Inn<br \/>\nand Sand Lane, (which lost its carousel<br \/>\nfor condominiums<br \/>\nand a dolphin fountain)<br \/>\nas the boardwalk lines the drive<br \/>\nand the marsh brush still waves<br \/>\nbending with green and tan<\/p>\n<p>One last turn<br \/>\ndown on Slater<br \/>\nwith its evolution<br \/>\nof tract houses<br \/>\ntaking me back<br \/>\nthrough decades<br \/>\ntill I hit\u00a0 my parents&#8217; home<br \/>\n<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/>\n<!--[endif]--><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedford and Avenue H, schoolbooks riding unbelted shotgun cross to Ocean Avenue, not Bay Parkway weaving with buses, sanitation trucks, cement mixers and straight backed brick apartment buildings in red with attached fire escapes and retirees in folding chairs Green means go, and the kid whose radio outprices his car can certainly plow ahead while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sidewalk-stories-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuppagemma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}