{"id":27,"date":"2002-10-07T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2002-10-07T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:49:15","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:49:15","slug":"northeast-minneapolis-100602-113-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/10\/07\/northeast-minneapolis-100602-113-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Northeast Minneapolis, 10.06.02, 1:13 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nic begins a story when holy shit! the car ahead of us hits a pole in the median of Hennepin and sails through the air. We watch between the wipers\/through the drops as the vehicle does a quarter turn considers flipping clean over but nosedives instead into the concrete CRUNCH I panic pumping brakes barely stopping on the slick road <em>shit.<\/em> Shit. Shit. Twenty feet closer, ten miles faster, if the rain were falling harder, Nic, we could be dead.<\/p>\n<p>I pull over and we race out, prepared to do what needs to be done, wet with sweat from dancing just minutes old and the rain that&#8217;s been falling for weeks. In my mind my friend runs for help, and I hold the hand of a dying stranger pleading <em>just a little longer<\/em> <strong>wait<\/strong> let me imagine your hopes fears dreams what flashes before your eyes, but no such sickdeep\u2014he&#8217;s out of his car before we reach him shaken, the three of us blinking at the shattered glints across the street, the mail from his dashboard fifteen feet away.<\/p>\n<p>His air bags exploded, his stereo still blaring, the man asks stupidly, &#8220;What happened? What happened?&#8221; hooking the words from off our tongues and tossing them back dead.<\/p>\n<p>New to me music of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromautumntoashes.com\/releases.html\">From Autumn To Ashes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nic begins a story when holy shit! the car ahead of us hits a pole in the median of Hennepin and sails through the air. We watch between the wipers\/through the drops as the vehicle does a quarter turn considers flipping clean over but nosedives instead into the concrete CRUNCH I panic pumping brakes barely<span class=\"excerpt-ellipsis\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2002\/10\/07\/northeast-minneapolis-100602-113-am\/\" itemprop=\"url\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,28,29],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narratives","tag-deepsicks","tag-minneapolis","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}