{"id":231,"date":"2006-07-26T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/07\/26\/on-discovering-that-a-friend-hold-a-different-point-of-view\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T18:06:06","slug":"on-discovering-that-a-friend-hold-a-different-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/07\/26\/on-discovering-that-a-friend-hold-a-different-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"On discovering that a friend holds a different point of view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to note<br \/>\nThat both of us thought<br \/>\nAnd I quote:<br \/>\n&#8220;I am steering this canoe.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe could have knelt facing out<br \/>\n(And never known)<br \/>\nBut we are facing in.<br \/>\nFacing, glaring at each other,<br \/>\nEach intent on his own journey<br \/>\nNo matter the cost in wasted motion<br \/>\nAnd emotion. I dipped my paddle<br \/>\nSo did you, and nothing could or will<br \/>\nConvince you, friend, or me, to desist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surprised to note That both of us thought And I quote: &#8220;I am steering this canoe.&#8221; We could have knelt facing out (And never known) But we are facing in. Facing, glaring at each other, Each intent on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/07\/26\/on-discovering-that-a-friend-hold-a-different-point-of-view\/\">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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}