{"id":2517,"date":"2009-11-17T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2009-11-18T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:20:09","slug":"negative-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/17\/negative-space\/","title":{"rendered":"negative space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday upon the stair
\n I met a man who wasn\u2019t there
\n He wasn\u2019t there again today
\n Oh, how I wish he\u2019d go away
\n—William Hughes Mearns,from “Antigonish” 1899<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Warm soapy water in the sink soothed the hands;
\nthe ripple plunk of water was its own music. But there was
\nno big hand reaching for a wet dish to dry; it was as if
\nshe had pulled a cup from the warm suds, and the water
\nwaited to slide into the hole; and she stopped, wondering
\nwhy the water wasn’t filling in the damn hole. She saw him
\nonly in dreams, always in dreams, elusive, unreal, gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The older you get, the more people leave. A friend of mine faced a sad anniversary today. (#976) Continue reading →<\/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":[3,416],"tags":[790,87,60,789],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-anniversary","tag-death","tag-relationship","tag-separation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","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=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}