{"id":252,"date":"2006-08-16T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/16\/in-the-porch\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T13:46:17","slug":"in-the-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/16\/in-the-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"In the porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swaddled in wool, detective novel on my chest,<br \/>\nIdly stroking purring cat, who arches under my hand<br \/>\nUntil I wonder if her hind legs will rise until<br \/>\nThey no longer hold onto the couch, but drift up<br \/>\nUp and away. Surely her claws will keep her<br \/>\nIn contact with <em>terra firma<\/em>. I picture her rising<br \/>\nUntil she is a constellation spanning half the known<br \/>\nUniverse. She hops down and pads away, her tail<br \/>\nA question mark. The world outside my porch<br \/>\nIs almost still: green leaves, gently rippling river,<br \/>\nClear green dabbed Lilliputian buildings nestled on the far shore<br \/>\nAnd blue sky, slightly pixilated at the horizon by little clouds.<br \/>\nThe syncopated rhythm of wavelets lapping at the shore,<br \/>\nLike a cat enjoying a saucer of milk, signals a long-past boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swaddled in wool, detective novel on my chest, Idly stroking purring cat, who arches under my hand Until I wonder if her hind legs will rise until They no longer hold onto the couch, but drift up Up and away. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/08\/16\/in-the-porch\/\">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":[43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}