{"id":100,"date":"2006-04-03T17:53:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/03\/sitting-here\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T02:47:54","slug":"sitting-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/04\/03\/sitting-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sit here, empires and sunrises chaotic in my head<br \/>\nspace platforms, gingham picnic baskets, violins,<br \/>\ngallumphing knights, classrooms, hospital tents, mountains,<!--more--><br \/>\nhot apple pies, meadows, hot air balloon flights, ponies,<br \/>\nwine tasting, cookies, ballgowns, waltzing, echoes,<br \/>\nwings, canoes, water weeds, clouds, Scott Joplin,<br \/>\nbanners, white tents on grassy hilltops, crickets,<br \/>\nsolitary sunrises, dinner with friends, theatre seats,<br \/>\ndragons, princesses and elephants taking up my time.<br \/>\nThe glamour of it all makes me wish I could be jealous<br \/>\nof myself. Then once in a while I return to surface to find<br \/>\nthe clock and the computer screen dozing in front of me<br \/>\nas I wonder where my next reader is coming from.<br \/>\nIn my crazy trance I see someone smiling faintly<br \/>\ngrunting agreement then perhaps a tear trickles off<br \/>\nthe tip of her nose, or he gulps, returns to life, wiser and<br \/>\nfulfilled. Excuse me for a moment: I have to<br \/>\nclean up the dragon scales and elephant poop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sit here, empires and sunrises chaotic in my head space platforms, gingham picnic baskets, violins, gallumphing knights, classrooms, hospital tents, mountains,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}