{"id":14,"date":"2006-03-11T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T17:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-03-11T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T17:01:39","slug":"springsong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/11\/springsong\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give me a northern spring!<br \/>\nRare, revivifying, joyous:<br \/>\nA return to light, to warmth,<br \/>\nTo the promise of summer.<\/p>\n<p>In northern spring,<br \/>\nSnowbanks melt, leaving<br \/>\nCrystaline carapaces<br \/>\nGleaming, giggling in the sun.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In northern spring,<br \/>\nThere is that definite<br \/>\nDelightful day<br \/>\nEverybody brings out the bikes and starts skipping rope on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Spare me from southern spring:<br \/>\nSpare me from the repetitive<br \/>\nGrimy retreat from salt-strewn winter;<\/p>\n<p>Spare me from the reiterated promise<br \/>\nLike a politician&#8217;s spiel:<br \/>\nSoon there will be warmth<br \/>\nSoon there will be growth<br \/>\nSoon there will be summer.<\/p>\n<p>Spare me from the  constant<br \/>\nThaws that begin in November<br \/>\nAnd continue every few weeks<br \/>\nUntil April , slush and drizzle<br \/>\nThat change to freezing rain . . .<\/p>\n<p>Halloweed begids with dread<br \/>\nAdd a code id the head<br \/>\nChrisbus with its jigglebuds<br \/>\nGives be a paid: go to bed<br \/>\nRuddy doze stubid cough<br \/>\nStays through dark dights<br \/>\nDib days rebedadive to sprig<\/p>\n<p>Ah, sprig! Southerd sprig!<br \/>\nSig sprigsog! Sig sprigsog!<br \/>\nEvery few weegs udtil<br \/>\n&#8216;flu add code seasod is<\/p>\n<p>Gone. Springsong . .  .<br \/>\nWiggles away . .  .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give me a northern spring! Rare, revivifying, joyous: A return to light, to warmth, To the promise of summer. In northern spring, Snowbanks melt, leaving Crystaline carapaces Gleaming, giggling in the sun. In northern spring, There is that definite Delightful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/03\/11\/springsong\/\">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":[2,7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}