{"id":2499,"date":"2009-11-15T18:59:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2009-11-16T19:35:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:35:22","slug":"barefoot-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/15\/barefoot-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"barefoot summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chance Harbour Nova Scotia 1949<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The warm sea breeze smells salty.<br \/>\nWe approach the beach at the low spot,<br \/>\nwhere the cliffs give way to crabgrass and<br \/>\nmagical sand that can become castles,<br \/>\nvast excavations, treasure troves of<br \/>\nmother of pearl shards, fresh mussels<br \/>\nwith their tiny purple pellets, and promises<br \/>\nof pirate jewels and ancient<!--more--> coins.<br \/>\nWonderland shrinks and expands<br \/>\nto the ancient heartbeat of the moon.<br \/>\nWe run electric along the gleaming edges<br \/>\nwhere sand meets icy surf, now splashing,<br \/>\nnow impossibly airborne, skipping over<br \/>\nsharp shell shards, now skidding ankle<br \/>\ndeep, falling to all fours, the receding water<br \/>\nwhimsically drags away the supporting sand.<br \/>\nOn rainy days, we play Monopoly like addicts<br \/>\nin opium dens, unwilling to leave for food.<br \/>\nOther days, race along dirt roads, reading<br \/>\nclues, hounds that never catch the fox.<br \/>\nOne day late in August, as the gale roars outside<br \/>\nand surf thunders onto the rocky cliff base,<br \/>\nwe sit by the fireplace, lighting matches<br \/>\non the fun-toughened soles of our feet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting my cousin reminded me of the iconic summer we spent at my uncle&#8217;s cottage in Chance Harbour, near New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. (#974) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/15\/barefoot-summer\/\">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":[3,42],"tags":[783,79,785,784,476,728,782,781],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-scapes","tag-beach","tag-childhood","tag-foster","tag-memoir","tag-memory","tag-playing","tag-summer-cottage","tag-summer-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}