{"id":224230,"date":"2022-11-21T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=224230"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:37:20","slug":"shatter-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/11\/shatter-alley\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatter Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/robert-Koehler-commonwonders-e1506263351946.gif\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/robert-Koehler-commonwonders-e1506263351946.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I snuggle behind the wheel<br \/>\nand see<br \/>\nshards of glass<br \/>\nscattered across<br \/>\nthe seat of my car.<br \/>\nWhat? No!<br \/>\nAgain?<br \/>\nSomeone God knows who<br \/>\ncrowbarred a window,<br \/>\nclaiming the right<br \/>\nto hate and hurt a man<br \/>\nhe doesn\u2019t know,<br \/>\nshattering the crystal normalcy<br \/>\nof the life I<br \/>\ntake for granted:<br \/>\nturn the key, start the engine,<br \/>\nhit the gas and go.<br \/>\nInstead I\u2019m left with invisible tears<br \/>\nhelpless rage<br \/>\nshards of glass.<\/p>\n<p><em>______________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/robert-koehler-17-e1542628029187.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-122360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/robert-koehler-17-e1542628029187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a> Robert C. Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based peace journalist and nationally syndicated writer. His book, <\/em>Courage Grows Strong at the Wound<em> (Xenos Press) is still available. Contact him at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/koehlercw@gmail.com\" >koehlercw@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/commonwonders.com\/shatter-alley\/\" >\u00a0Go to Original \u2013 commonwonders.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I snuggle behind the wheel<br \/>\nand see<br \/>\nshards of glass<br \/>\nscattered across<br \/>\nthe seat of my car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-224230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}