{"id":1478,"date":"2013-05-11T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:07:59","slug":"red-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Red Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blog block again today – writer’s block for bloggers. Nothing jumped out at me by way of an idea for a blog this morning and I am sure that this happens to a lot of writers. I warmed a little to the idea of writing about body parts that were named after people, such as, Adam’s Apple and Achilles’ Heel – I am not sure that Vagina Monologues were listed \ud83d\ude42 in the huge list I saw on Wikipedia.  I decided that I would actually have had to write on every one individually to do them justice. This is a project for another day or another year.<\/p>\n

What kept running around in my head, though, was a corruption of a line from a poem by William Carlos Williams,<\/p>\n

The Red Wheel Barrow<\/p>\n

so much depends<\/span>
\nupon<\/span><\/p>\n

\na red wheel
\nbarrow<\/div>\n
\nglazed with rain
\nwater<\/div>\n
\nbeside the white
\nchickens.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI kept remembering it as:<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n“So much can be said about a red wheel barrow beside white chickens.” No doubt I was looking for a blog topic, something simple that I could write “so much” about. I kept asking myself, “where is this mother load of writing that one should be able to find in an image of a red wheel barrow and chickens?”<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nI know of bloggers, who keep chickens and write a lot about them. Amy Young Miller<\/a> even named her blog Vomiting Chicken. Sadly I live in the city where chicken farming is outlawed. I do have a wheel barrow, but it’s green and my livestock – cats are black. I needed a lunch break.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAs I walked to get a sandwich, the blog started to come together. I passed a few items that were red and I thought OK you might not necessarily depend on these things, but maybe you could say something interesting about them, in the style of W.C.W. Here is the first item – <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHow about – “So much can be said about a red stove in front of an antique shop beside a white table.” I’m warming up. I have to wonder whether this is really a stove. Where did it come from? Who owned it? What did it do? Where is it going and Who made it? Yes, if you could answer all these questions you would have a post.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHere’s another, a red scooter. It had just rained so, this vehicle has been “glazed by rain,” it’s red, there is not a chicken in sight, unless you count me because I am not the sort who would ride a motorized cycle, although I admire all who do!!<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nFinally another vehicle, quite removed from the wheel barrow.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSomehow I can’t see this in a barn yard with chickens of any colour. I think I’ll call this collection Street Poetry. We have red; we have rain; we have vehicles; we don’t have chickens, but do we have poetry?<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe Red Vehicles<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nSo much depends<\/div>\n
\nupon<\/div>\n
\na series of pictures<\/div>\n
\nin red<\/div>\n
\npolished by rain<\/div>\n
\nshowers<\/div>\n
\non grey city <\/div>\n
\nstreets.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nYup, we do \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHave a great day!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blog block again today – writer’s block for bloggers. Nothing jumped out at me by way of an idea for a blog this morning and I am sure that this happens to a lot of writers. I warmed a little to the idea of writing about body parts that were named after people, such as, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}