{"id":3182,"date":"2017-06-19T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2017-06-19T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T21:07:17","slug":"lost-in-trainstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"lost in trainstation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove-768x602.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove-1024x802.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/LaneCove-383x300.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI have been listening to the train-driver for the name of my station, Shirahama. I\u2019ve forgotten how many stops it is from Himeji. The station names come up in his unintelligible spiel as little lifeboats in a sea of incomprehension. Blah blah blah shikama blah blah blah mega blah blah blah\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It must be soon. I look outside, industrial mixed with domestic, and it all begins to have a d\u00e9j\u00e0-vu feel. I know the school is close because of the smoke and steam pouring out of the smoke stacks I see in the distance every day from my other school&#8230;&#8221; (excerpt)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to see more of my short stories being recognised. This memoir piece began in 2008 but has only now been published.<\/p>\n<p>Last year I entered it in the Lane Cove Literary Award in the \u201cTravel Story\u201d category. It didn\u2019t win, but as a short-listed story it was included in this excellent anthology.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Lane Cove Library for promoting unpublished work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have been listening to the train-driver for the name of my station, Shirahama. I\u2019ve forgotten how many stops it is from Himeji. The station names come up in his unintelligible spiel as little lifeboats in a sea of incomprehension. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}