{"id":51,"date":"2009-07-14T06:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2023-04-12T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T08:10:27","slug":"the-man-who-reads-road-signs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"THE MAN WHO READS ROAD SIGNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the pub, on quiz nights,<br \/>\nit is his specialist subject,<br \/>\ntheir design, shape, colour, their meaning.<\/p>\n<p>His home is a flat in the centre of town<br \/>\nfrom where, at weekends, he watches the streets<br \/>\nwaken, live, play, quieten to one stray drunk.<\/p>\n<p>At work he adds figures, counts money,<br \/>\ntallies floats and bank books,<br \/>\ninvoices and chases bad debts.<\/p>\n<p>He hates oafs who swear in public,<br \/>\ngirls who talk loudly<br \/>\nand who drink from bottles in the street.<\/p>\n<p>His wishes are to have a car with laser headlights<br \/>\nto atomize bad drivers,<br \/>\nand to be an invisible helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>At night, in unsettled dreams,<br \/>\nhe replays his life,<br \/>\ntalks honestly to himself.<\/p>\n<p><em> Saturday Night Desperate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ragged Raven Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the pub, on quiz nights, it is his specialist subject, their design, shape, colour, their meaning. His home is a flat in the centre of town from where, at weekends, he watches the streets waken, live, play, quieten to one stray drunk. At work he adds figures, counts money, tallies floats and bank books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/326"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeremyduffield.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}