{"id":1359,"date":"2008-12-28T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2008-12-28T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T13:54:08","slug":"hesi%e2%80%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/12\/28\/hesi%e2%80%94\/","title":{"rendered":"hesi\u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are dreams I could conjure in these lines\u2014<br \/>\nwalk on Mars<br \/>\nkiss a willing stranger<br \/>\nwear a diamond<br \/>\ndrive a Maserati<br \/>\ncut a throat\u2014<br \/>\nbut blood dictates another course:<\/p>\n<p>And so I will not kiss you Princess<br \/>\nnor bind and flay your lovely hide<br \/>\nnor vanish with you for this weekend<br \/>\nof debauchery and gain ten pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll watch TV and write this poem<br \/>\nvacuum the living room<br \/>\npile saltines with cheese<br \/>\nand have a slow late afternoon<br \/>\nscotch and conversation at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are dreams I could conjure in these lines\u2014 walk on Mars kiss a willing stranger wear a diamond drive a Maserati cut a throat\u2014 but blood dictates another course: And so I will not kiss you Princess nor bind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/12\/28\/hesi%e2%80%94\/\">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":[52,3,416],"tags":[372,66],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-imagination","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}