{"id":17466,"date":"2018-09-17T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=17466"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:37:00","slug":"morning-commute-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/morning-commute-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Commute Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"

I drive my boys to school from the suburbs of Houston into ‘town’ three days a week. My husband takes the other two. Sometimes they are sleepy guys, sometimes we talk, sometimes they work on homework.<\/p>\n

This morning, I glanced to my right as we were about to rise on an overpass and saw a river of white lights about to go beneath the highway I was driving. We were listening to classical music.<\/p>\n

I asked my 17-year-old son what the haiku rules are. And then I wrote this, as we both laughed a lot and he reminded me to keep it about nature:<\/p>\n

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Morning Commute Haiku<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

White lights flowing into town<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Piercing the dawn. hello sun<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Souls flowing, work begins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then he added:<\/p>\n

it is snowing on mt fuji<\/p>\n

Aaahhhh. The joys of the commute!<\/p>\n

Happy Monday, friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I drive my boys to school from the suburbs of Houston into ‘town’ three days a week. My husband takes the other two. Sometimes they are sleepy guys, sometimes we talk, sometimes they work on homework. This morning, I glanced to my right as we were about to rise on an overpass and saw a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-family","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17471,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17466\/revisions\/17471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}