{"id":2305,"date":"2009-10-20T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2009-10-21T23:38:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T03:38:32","slug":"idyll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/10\/20\/idyll\/","title":{"rendered":"Idyll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rolling expanse of green lawns<br \/>\nsculpted flower beds and lollipop trees<br \/>\nspreads sweetly along the river at the<br \/>\nfoot of our city<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">. . . . . . . . . . . . . .<\/span>until the geese arrive<br \/>\nwith their little green and black cigars<br \/>\nthat they excrete like giant parentheses<!--more--><br \/>\non every patch of grass or walk<br \/>\nto squish underfoot like perverse<br \/>\nbanana peels<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">. . . . . . . . . . . . . <\/span>\u2014oh for some inside<br \/>\nknowledge about what besides a shotgun<br \/>\nactually preys on these little mobsters.<br \/>\nThese natural graffiti are fallen middle fingers<br \/>\nlopped off and abandoned in mid-gesture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avoiding goose poop isn&#8217;t always a walk in the park. (#948) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/10\/20\/idyll\/\">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":[338,7,3,46,17,416],"tags":[733,62],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-river","category-screeds","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-annoyances","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}