{"id":8237,"date":"2026-04-01T10:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8237"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:49:35","slug":"middle-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8237","title":{"rendered":"Middle Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light is-repeated\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-8264 size-large is-repeated\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/middle-lane-585x800.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-80 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#d2cbbb\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b7016a9512ab2e2a8c072d4f573557a1\"><strong><em>Middle lane stain<br>Middle lane pain<br>No common courtesy<br>No shits for you or me<br><br>Blinkers firmly on<br>Fog lights on too<br>Brain disengaged<br>Oblivious to me and you<br><br>Blind superiority<br>Downright stupidity<br>Middle lane stain<br>A symptom of society<br><br>Try as I\u2019d like<br>There\u2019s nothing I can do<br>It shouldn\u2019t bother me<br>Clearly doesn\u2019t bother you<br><br>But it\u2019s a type of malaise<br>That has my mind curled<br>A middle lane stain<br>Has taken over my world<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-7eee27fcf7ca0c62c651b3edf66c03db\"><em>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=8214\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8214\"><em>More Poems<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original poetry by Jon Arthur 2026 More Poems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8237"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8350,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/8350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}