{"id":1772,"date":"2009-05-02T07:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T11:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T11:23:36","slug":"86400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/05\/02\/86400\/","title":{"rendered":"86400"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[<em><a title=\"Fishrizzo Productions site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fishrizzo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">86400<\/a> <\/em>is the name of a film made by a local production company. It was shown to the public on April 29, 30, 2009 in Cinema 1 at Galaxy Cinema in Cornwall, Ontairo. The film was made by the crew of three interviewing 24 Cornwall citizens in a 24 hour period\u2014hence the title, which is the number of seconds in 24 hours.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many thousand years ago\u00a0 deep in a cave<br \/>\na small group of fur-clad hunters<br \/>\nstood watching the souls of animals and other hunters<br \/>\nbrought out of the darkness by flickering torch light<br \/>\nbut frozen in the heat of the blood hunt.<\/p>\n<p>They drooled watching the plump animals flee<br \/>\npondered the handling of a spear, the heft, the flight.<br \/>\nThey argued the strategy, wondered how the animal<br \/>\ncould exist silent without its strong familiar musk.<\/p>\n<p>They left the cave, relieved, pleased to smell the familiar grasses<br \/>\nto hear the birds overhead, alert to the scent of a young boar<br \/>\nthat had passed south three days before, just after the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Two nights ago in raked seats, ranged rows of eyes watched our town<br \/>\ndisplayed on the familiar blank white wall that usually controls<br \/>\nour imaginations from afar.<\/p>\n<p>But here we were watching ourselves in the magic place:<br \/>\nthis time people we really knew were up there larger than life<br \/>\nwondering if they are allowed to move their heads<br \/>\nor smile.<\/p>\n<p>We left the theatre, relieved, pleased to smell the familiar gases<br \/>\nto hear the busy traffic, alert to the scent of fried fast food nearby<br \/>\nstartled by the crisp swish of tires, just after the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[86400 is the name of a film made by a local production company. It was shown to the public on April 29, 30, 2009 in Cinema 1 at Galaxy Cinema in Cornwall, Ontairo. The film was made by the crew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/05\/02\/86400\/\">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":[3,416],"tags":[106,632,634,633],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-cornwall-ontario","tag-documentary","tag-john-earl","tag-moviemaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","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=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}