{"id":1296,"date":"2008-12-02T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2008-12-07T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T23:47:17","slug":"my-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/12\/02\/my-student\/","title":{"rendered":"my student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was holding the door for<br \/>\na grey-haired matron<br \/>\nwho glanced up at me<br \/>\nas she passed<\/p>\n<p>did a double-take<br \/>\nand I saw the look<br \/>\nan ex-student gives<br \/>\nthe lights go on<\/p>\n<p>now we were caught<br \/>\nteetering in the moment<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t remember names<br \/>\nnor did she I gather<\/p>\n<p>how are you?<br \/>\nstill teaching?<\/p>\n<p>I should ask<br \/>\nstill studying?<br \/>\nor not<\/p>\n<p>As I let go of the door and<br \/>\nengaged in the predictable<br \/>\nbanter about life<br \/>\nin the intervening years<\/p>\n<p>I read the subtext<br \/>\nwe are both invested<br \/>\nin the same journey<br \/>\nI just gave a push<\/p>\n<p>and she flew younger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was holding the door for a grey-haired matron who glanced up at me as she passed did a double-take and I saw the look an ex-student gives the lights go on now we were caught teetering in the moment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/12\/02\/my-student\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}