{"id":90733,"date":"2012-06-13T00:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90733\/poem-cars-present\/"},"modified":"2012-06-13T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T04:07:13","slug":"poem-cars-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/90733\/poem-cars-present\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Cars Past And Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"arial, helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"4\"><strong><em>This was created for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendburst.com\/blog\/90730\/wonderful-wednesday-car-crazy\/\">CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge<\/a>. Cars is the topic. \u00a0The poem refers to nine videos I posted for the challenge.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><strong>CARS PAST AND PRESENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Riding along in my automobile<br \/>\nin the 1960s,<br \/>\na little was a lot:<br \/>\nlittle GTO;<br \/>\nlittle deuce coupe;<br \/>\nlittle old lady from Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;409&#8221; was not a household cleaner.<\/p>\n<p>In a hot rod Lincoln,<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><strong>evidently if you floored it,<br \/>\ntelephone poles looked like a picket fence.<\/p>\n<p>The guy in the Caddy<br \/>\ngot pretty maddy<br \/>\nwhen the guy in the Nash Rambler<br \/>\nwent beep beep,<br \/>\nespecially when he did hear<br \/>\n&#8220;Hey buddy how do you get this car out of second gear?&#8221;<br \/>\nbleep bleep bleep bleep his mouth went bleep bleep bleep.<\/p>\n<p>See the USA in your Chevrolet<br \/>\nor your Ford or your Chrysler,<br \/>\nOr nowadays, if you are fond ta,<br \/>\nsee it all in your Honda.<br \/>\nor even a Toy Ota,<br \/>\nif you can&#8217;t afford a real car.<br \/>\nYour life may get a new lease on<br \/>\nif you see the USA in a Nissan.<br \/>\nA new Subaru<br \/>\ncan do a lot for you,<br \/>\nwhile a Mazda<br \/>\ndoes not seem to rhyme with anything,<br \/>\nbut can still be fun to drive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of driving,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s a good way to get from where you want to leave<br \/>\nto where you want to be arriving.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright June 13th 2012 RGD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was created for the CPC Wonderful Wednesday poetry challenge. Cars is the topic. \u00a0The poem refers to nine videos I posted for the challenge. CARS PAST AND PRESENT Riding along in my automobile in the 1960s, a little was a lot: little GTO; little deuce coupe; little old lady from Pasadena. &#8220;409&#8221; was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}