{"id":21572,"date":"2009-05-30T18:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T01:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2016-09-11T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T13:36:18","slug":"another-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/another-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this poem on a <a href=\"http:\/\/artsncathy.com\/Photo5.html\">poster<\/a> on the wall in the ladies&#8217; bathroom at Nugget City:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Great Alcan Highway<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Come drive the great Alcan Highway from one end to the other<br \/>\nMiles of splendor and adventure, become a vein of northern gold.<br \/>\nOne time in the summer, let the Arctic sun steal your slumber.<br \/>\nAgain in winter, challenged, by the frost and bitter cold.<br \/>\nWhat a great highway, with its very few by-ways,<br \/>\nJust think, you&#8217;re heading northwest to the Pole.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t wait too long to drive it, prove you can survive it.<br \/>\nYou should go now, before your dream grows too old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Come drive the great Alcan, from one end to the other.<br \/>\nGive a thrill, bless your bones, far from home.<br \/>\nThe people you meet, and the places you eat and sleep,<br \/>\nMake it worth all the miles, upon miles, you roam.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So come drive the great highway, give thanks for those By days,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t complain, till it&#8217;s explained, how the whole thing was done.<br \/>\nTake the trip of your lifetime, celebrate the grand northern lifeline.<br \/>\nThe great deed done under the spell, the midnight sun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>J. Hamilton Clarke &#8211; 1989<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this poem on a poster on the wall in the ladies&#8217; bathroom at Nugget City: The Great Alcan Highway Come drive the great Alcan Highway from one end to the other Miles of splendor and adventure, become a vein of northern gold. One time in the summer, let the Arctic sun steal your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1442,632,635,3,16,1040],"tags":[1467],"class_list":["post-21572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska-usa-travel","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-travel","category-usa","category-yukon","tag-alaska-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}