{"id":1868,"date":"2009-06-17T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:13:07","slug":"ranting-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/06\/17\/ranting-old-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranting old men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So a bicycle on a sidewalk<br \/>\ncold cocks a pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>What might a bleeding student<br \/>\nthrown out his window into the night<br \/>\nby masked mercenaries<br \/>\nthink of that<br \/>\nas he falls<br \/>\ntoo many storeys<br \/>\nto an unmarked grave.<\/p>\n<p>And what are such old men as I<br \/>\ncomplaining about<br \/>\nwhen other old men<br \/>\nhave ordered such acts<br \/>\nin the name of God?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a bicycle on a sidewalk cold cocks a pedestrian. What might a bleeding student thrown out his window into the night by masked mercenaries think of that as he falls too many storeys to an unmarked grave. And what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/06\/17\/ranting-old-men\/\">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":[45,52,3,17,416],"tags":[215,653,654],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-screeds","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-religion","tag-religious-extremists","tag-the-shrinking-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}