{"id":158,"date":"2006-05-19T18:46:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T22:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/19\/human\/"},"modified":"2006-05-21T00:07:15","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T04:07:15","slug":"human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/19\/human\/","title":{"rendered":"human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so the guy is leaning against the wall<br \/>\nhis left leg bent back at the knee<br \/>\nhis shoe sole is flat against the bricks<br \/>\nthe way guys idle kind of like smoking<br \/>\nbut not smoking just sort of waiting<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s something vulnerable about it<br \/>\nlike he couldn&#8217;t suddenly stave off<br \/>\nan attack in the crane posture<br \/>\nyou know, where the kid kicks<br \/>\nwith the leg he&#8217;s standing on<br \/>\nwhoo-ee!<\/p>\n<p>none of that<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s leaning against the brick wall<br \/>\nbeside the store window and his hair is<br \/>\nslicked back in a shiny pompadore<br \/>\nhis sleeves are rolled up over his biceps<br \/>\nhis smokes are not tucked in there, but<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re in his shirt pocket<br \/>\nwaiting<\/p>\n<p>confident he&#8217;s projecting confidence<br \/>\nright from his single black shoe on the concrete<br \/>\nto the fly settled on his pompadore<br \/>\nhe is confident so confident he spits<br \/>\nmarking his territory against all the<br \/>\nrubbery blotches of bubblegum<br \/>\ndecorating the sidewalk around his<br \/>\ncourt confident confident confident<\/p>\n<p>look closely at this guy<br \/>\nwere you once, in an irony of karma<br \/>\nthis guy<br \/>\nthink in his head<br \/>\nspit again<br \/>\nassert yourself<br \/>\nthe pavement trembles<br \/>\nspit jiggles<br \/>\nbubble gum is all exceited<\/p>\n<p>god stalks the earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so the guy is leaning against the wall his left leg bent back at the knee his shoe sole is flat against the bricks the way guys idle kind of like smoking but not smoking just sort of waiting<\/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-158","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\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}