{"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":"2026-04-23T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:38:42","slug":"middle-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=8237","title":{"rendered":"Middle Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote has-black-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a503182e8434c75fd867d5548391ba57\" style=\"border-width:7px;border-top-left-radius:98px;border-top-right-radius:98px;border-bottom-left-radius:98px;border-bottom-right-radius:98px\"><blockquote><p><strong>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 symptom of malaise<br>That has my mind curled<br>A middle lane stain<br>Has taken over my world<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle lane stainMiddle lane painNo common courtesyNo shits for you or me Blinkers firmly onFog lights on tooBrain disengagedOblivious to me and you Blind superiorityDownright stupidityMiddle lane stainA symptom of society Try as I\u2019d&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8239,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8237\/revisions\/8239"}],"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}]}}