{"id":2513,"date":"2009-11-16T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2009-11-17T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:20:08","slug":"four-men-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/16\/four-men-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Men Sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stand, listening to each other:<br \/>\nthe first run-through is rough;<br \/>\nwe are not breathing together,<br \/>\nso our phrasing does not match.<br \/>\nThe low November sun carves<br \/>\ninto the gold edges of our faces<br \/>\nand shoulders; we lean into<!--more--><br \/>\nthe notes, making chords ring.<br \/>\nMy wife returns from her afternoon:<br \/>\nshe thinks we are a radio program,<br \/>\ngiggles at her mistake. We resume<br \/>\npressing the notes, listening,<br \/>\nchewing the sound like fresh fall apples<br \/>\ncrisp, crunchy, tangy, sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our barbershop quartet, Acapellics Anonymous, practised Christmas carols at our house this afternoon. (#975) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/16\/four-men-sing\/\">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],"tags":[786,993,788,787,274],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-barbershop-quartet","tag-barbershop-singing","tag-practice","tag-practising","tag-singing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}