{"id":18078,"date":"2019-01-08T20:08:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=18078"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:10:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T20:10:26","slug":"life-island-times-highwayman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-highwayman\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Highwayman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not about the Detroit 1%er motorcycle club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Marlow<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LIT010819.jpg\" alt=\"LIT010819\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LIT010819.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LIT010819-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/LIT010819-312x281.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\nI motorcycled the highways<br \/>\nAlong coastal roads I did ride<br \/>\nLeather and jeans protected my back side<br \/>\nMany a mile was covered as I pursued this trade<br \/>\nMany the moments did I speed through glen and glade<br \/>\nSome gravel hung me out to dry in oh five<br \/>\nAnd lucky I was to survive<\/p>\n<p>I was a sailor<br \/>\nI floated out with the tide<br \/>\nAnd upon the sea I did abide<br \/>\nI sailed carriers through Malacca to the great IO<br \/>\nThe Hawk did shudder with a cat 5 tempest and blow<br \/>\nCatwalks bent, then broke off, but no sailors got killed<br \/>\nMade it back to Pearl, lucky to be living still<\/p>\n<p>I was a dumb bastard<br \/>\nWho crossed raging rivers deep and wide<br \/>\nWhere steel meeting waters I shouldn&#8217;t have survived<br \/>\nThere were cold, wet and killer storms whose winds did blow<br \/>\nNever did I slide and fall onto slick pavement just below<br \/>\nLucky I am to be still around<br \/>\nI kept riding around and around and around and around and around<\/p>\n<p>I was a two wheeled starship pilot flying<br \/>\nAcross mountainous divides<br \/>\nAnd when I reached the other sides<br \/>\nThere were places that refreshed the spirit of man<br \/>\nThat was when I became a highwayman<br \/>\nNo amount of snow, sleet or rain<br \/>\nCould stop me<br \/>\nFrom going back again, and again and again and again and again<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2019 From My Isle Seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this is not about the Detroit 1%er motorcycle club. &#8211; Marlow I motorcycled the highways Along coastal roads I did ride Leather and jeans protected my back side Many a mile was covered as I pursued this trade Many the moments did I speed through glen and glade Some gravel hung me out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18082,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18078\/revisions\/18082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}