{"id":193,"date":"2006-06-17T23:39:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/17\/this-afternoon\/"},"modified":"2006-06-20T23:03:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T03:03:26","slug":"this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/17\/this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"This afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>the river was pale<br \/>\nmirroring the soft grey sky<br \/>\nripples flowed slowly<br \/>\nrandom undulations<br \/>\nthat carried the glance<!--more--><br \/>\nof the reader away from his page<br \/>\nand back and away and back<br \/>\nuntil he drooped in his chair<br \/>\nand the book slid down beside him<\/p>\n<p>he did not wake for the drone<br \/>\nof a far off motor nor the<br \/>\ncacophonic laugh of a heron<br \/>\nwinging homeward overhead<br \/>\nchildren could play raucously<br \/>\na few yards over but he<br \/>\nwas walking the halls<br \/>\nof a routine from years before<br \/>\nhalls that were real as<br \/>\nthe book beside him which<br \/>\nheld no reality in the dream<\/p>\n<p>The words in the pages<br \/>\nawoke and  looked at his<br \/>\nsilent face at his eyes<br \/>\ntwitching horizontally in rem sleep<br \/>\nand mistook this twitch for reading<br \/>\nthey spilled out of the book<br \/>\nlike ants on a quest<br \/>\nwith pincers poised ready<br \/>\nto dig into his skull open his brain<br \/>\nride blood surges into his eyes<br \/>\nand be read there<\/p>\n<p>a butterfly landed on his nose<br \/>\nwoke him and he shrugged away<br \/>\nthe fuzzy channels of sleep<br \/>\nand continued reading<br \/>\nhearing occasional lapping<br \/>\nthat came into shore from<br \/>\nthe passage of a boat<br \/>\nso far away on the pale water<br \/>\nit was only a memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the river was pale mirroring the soft grey sky ripples flowed slowly random undulations that carried the glance<\/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-193","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\/193","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=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}