{"id":2933,"date":"2025-11-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2025-11-11T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:01:02","slug":"pimp-my-ride-by-julian-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Pimp My Ride by Juli\u00e1n Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames which hangs on the fuse of an even bigger bomb, the size of your apartment building. You look out the window every day and wonder when Xzibit will light the car on fire\u2014 why else would he stand in the street like this, flicking his lighter? <em>Who\u2019s he waiting for?<\/em> you pretend to wonder, the hatchback in the air swinging like the branches of the trees. He\u2019s waiting for you. He\u2019s waiting for the lover who\u2019s holed up in your bedroom these past few days\u2014 who climbed into the leather interior of the blinding rush of blood Xzibit tricked out for you\u2014 to leave your place and go back to her spouse, for you to be alone and walk into the leaf-covered street and tell him, \u201cyou were right. There is only emptiness in the mornings.\u201d But the emptiness isn\u2019t all there is. Not yet, not when she\u2019s steeping her tea, admiring how the trees hold strong against autumn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Juli\u00e1n Martinez is from Waukegan, IL. Find him online<\/em> <em>@martinezfjulian or <a href=\"https:\/\/martinezfjulian.com\/\">martinezfjulian.com<\/a>, or IRL in Chicago. He\u2019s not a car guy, but he loves a good sound system.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Xzibit has planted the smallest bomb inside of a bomb which rests under the floating 2001 Toyota Corolla painted candy red with pinstripe and flames <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/?p=2933\" title=\"Pimp My Ride by Juli\u00e1n Martinez\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hexliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}