{"id":1082,"date":"2008-10-10T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2009-09-12T23:35:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T03:35:43","slug":"how-he-brought-the-good-news-from-the-doctor-to-the-wishing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/10\/10\/how-he-brought-the-good-news-from-the-doctor-to-the-wishing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"How he brought the good news from the doctor to the wishing well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was busting out all over<br \/>\nIt was almost like galloping<br \/>\nexcept I was posting in the car<br \/>\nstalled in grid lock<br \/>\nwhile the radio hosts<br \/>\nbantered with phone-in opinions<br \/>\non something or other urgently<br \/>\nrequiring immediate inanity<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to burst into song<br \/>\nlike Ethel Merman<br \/>\non the roof of my giddiness<br \/>\nIf it had been raining<br \/>\nI&#8217;d have been Gene Kelly<br \/>\nstomping in puddles<br \/>\neven without an umbrella<\/p>\n<p>But I had to sit<br \/>\nidling my three litre engine<br \/>\nas if hydrocarbons<br \/>\nwere hymns of joy<br \/>\nMy life was going on<br \/>\nin my case forever<br \/>\nat least that&#8217;s what<br \/>\nthe diggity dog doctor<br \/>\ntold me after my three month<br \/>\nstint in his waiting room<br \/>\nand now in this car<br \/>\non this yellow brick road<br \/>\nso there, Mr. Death:<br \/>\nup yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was busting out all over It was almost like galloping except I was posting in the car stalled in grid lock while the radio hosts bantered with phone-in opinions on something or other urgently requiring immediate inanity I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/10\/10\/how-he-brought-the-good-news-from-the-doctor-to-the-wishing-well\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,338,53,52,3],"tags":[201,461,57,540],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-fun","category-illness","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","tag-health","tag-humor","tag-humour","tag-robert-browning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","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=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}