{"id":194,"date":"2006-06-18T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T19:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/18\/theatre-18\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T23:11:39","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:11:39","slug":"theatre-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/18\/theatre-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre (18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>an episodically published poem<br \/>\nlink to <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/05\/22\/theatre\/\">beginning<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The suit of lights is spread upon my tiny altar<br \/>\n<em>iMadre de Dios!<\/em> I shall strut and pose and never falter<\/p>\n<p>See each strap and bow and ribbon that I tighten<br \/>\nAnd know this: I&#8217;m one no bull can ever frighten<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kneel I now before the icons stark and serious<br \/>\nKnow this, O tyrants of the skies, I&#8217;m furious!<\/p>\n<p>Wrapped in my cape of blood I face the long <em>corrida<br \/>\n<\/em>And know this corridor can make losers of succeeders<\/p>\n<p>And now I face the moment grim and full of terror<br \/>\nThey want to change my script, and that&#8217;s an error<\/p>\n<p>I shall tell them both: producer and director too<br \/>\nI stand no bull: no changes will I make \u2014 that&#8217;s true<\/p>\n<p>Well maybe just a word; but no more or it&#8217;s awful<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad we had this chat \u2014 it&#8217;s civilized and lawful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an episodically published poem link to beginning The suit of lights is spread upon my tiny altar iMadre de Dios! I shall strut and pose and never falter See each strap and bow and ribbon that I tighten And know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/06\/18\/theatre-18\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","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\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}