{"id":407,"date":"2009-09-14T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:10:29","slug":"you-cant-get-there-from-here-without-a-lot-of-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"You can’t get there from here without a lot of trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click to see the full mess!<\/div>\n

All along the route
their patience waned
as the roads turned sandier
down to the Jersey shore
when back ways could not avoid
the open bridge
as one slow thin mast
would paralyze the day
and our front-seating it
pushing crowding forward
“not there yet!”
then racing
who’d see the ocean first
pushing towards its vastness
our young lives stretched out
in unending summer
and in one shell
its mystery
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“Before the Parkway” by Jerome Leary<\/p>\n

The Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge, a 1240 foot drawbridge that spans the Shrewsbury River, is being replaced with a fixed-span bridge that will rise some 30 feet higher than its predecessor. <\/p>\n

Gone will be the occasion to put the car in park and step out for twenty minutes while the bridge is open to watch the sailboats go by underneath. Gone will be that instant of panic when the light on the drawbridge turns from green to yellow to red and you wonder if you should chance it before the bells and gates descend to make you twenty minutes late for wherever it is you’re meant to be on the other side of the crossing. Gone will be the convenient excuse of the bridge being up. Gone will be the pause on a summer day.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, we have this mess of cranes and a crazy maze to navigate the way from here to there. I can’t help but be discombobulated by the change.<\/p>\n

Are drawbridges in your neck of the woods being replaced, too? Will you miss them?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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