{"id":3235,"date":"2025-11-03T00:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:31:12","slug":"im-not-a-man-of-too-many-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"i&#8217;m not a man of too many faces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Slicked-back concrete, the odd swish of the wipers.  A sharp right up onto Georgia Street; the entrance always looks like a dormant pedestrian area.  Climb the hill toward Veterans&#8217; Bridge, Radio Paradise on.  &#8220;The Shape of My Heart&#8221; plays as I crest the rise and head out over the bridge, stacked rows of lights merge the foreground of the riverbanks with the background of the ridge in the rainy November evening.  Elmore Leonard on the brain.  The wheels thump over the manhole covers; I wind my way up toward Hixson, glancing just once to my right before I reach Altamont.  That&#8217;s all you get.  All. You. Get.  And I keep going, retracing a route I know well, applying a translucent veneer of my current state in the process.  Memories get overlaid, layer by layer, day by day, minute by minute, second by eternal second.  Moments like this help; the urban evening becomes a companion, I borrow the city&#8217;s life, and I&#8217;m a little less alone.  For a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slicked-back concrete, the odd swish of the wipers. A sharp right up onto Georgia Street; the entrance always looks like a dormant pedestrian area. Climb the hill toward Veterans&#8217; Bridge, Radio Paradise on. &#8220;The Shape of My Heart&#8221; plays as I crest the rise and head out over the bridge, stacked rows of lights merge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}