{"id":134,"date":"2006-05-02T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/02\/what-if\/"},"modified":"2006-05-03T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T03:28:25","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/02\/what-if\/","title":{"rendered":"What if"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if we lived in a world where the waters were open?<br \/>\nWhat it we lived in a world where love were alive?<\/p>\n<p>Then we could soar to the stars and live with the angels<br \/>\nYes we could hover in heaven and sing in the choir<\/p>\n<p>Then fire up the forge and the metal of love will flow<!--more--><br \/>\nThe cauldron will fill us with love as if love were alive<\/p>\n<p>Reality check: we are stranded on ice where the water of life is frozen<br \/>\nHere we are shackled to stone where love has just died<\/p>\n<p>Here we are bathed in cold fires that are stoked by the winds of gold<br \/>\nHere we must stay and clog up our lungs with fire<br \/>\nHere we must chew on the sparks of the forges while they are cold<br \/>\nHere we must watch as the planet is shrouded in ice<\/p>\n<p>Still the beating of your heart my children<br \/>\nWait until your elders make all the mistakes<br \/>\nWait until the river freezes down to the bottom weeds<br \/>\nElse you would have to dishonour your elders in time<br \/>\nIs this the end of the fateful story<br \/>\nIs this the end of a planet mired in ice<br \/>\nIs this a place with no springtime at all to end the frozen tempest?<\/p>\n<p>What if we lived in a world where the waters were open?<br \/>\nWhat it we lived in a world where love were alive?<\/p>\n<p>Then we could soar to the stars and live with the angels<br \/>\nYes we could hover in heaven and sing in the choir<\/p>\n<p>Then fire up the forge and the metal of love will flow<br \/>\nThe cauldron will fill us with love as if love were alive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if we lived in a world where the waters were open? What it we lived in a world where love were alive? Then we could soar to the stars and live with the angels Yes we could hover in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/02\/what-if\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}