{"id":1801,"date":"2009-05-25T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2009-05-25T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:16:44","slug":"get-aways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/05\/25\/get-aways\/","title":{"rendered":"get aways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They loiter<br \/>\ncasually at the bus stop<br \/>\nroofless, rootless<br \/>\nglancing furtively<br \/>\nelsewhere<\/p>\n<p>waiting<br \/>\nto slip a hand into your heart<br \/>\ntake what is left<br \/>\nand disappear sideways<br \/>\nfrom the dream<\/p>\n<p>the physician mumbles<br \/>\nscrawls mystic formulae<br \/>\nlike an alchemist<br \/>\nprobing by remote control<br \/>\nfor answers in another dimension<\/p>\n<p>they stand<br \/>\nwaiting for the undriven bus<br \/>\nto pull up and lift them<br \/>\nout from under<br \/>\nthe crushing weight<br \/>\nof flesh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about this before. Dying is a selfish act. But then, so is living. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/05\/25\/get-aways\/\">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],"tags":[997,80,315],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-dying","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","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=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}