{"id":2552,"date":"2009-11-22T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2009-11-23T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T23:48:20","slug":"yellow-granite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/22\/yellow-granite\/","title":{"rendered":"yellow granite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November afternoon flows through open windows like music.<br \/>\nThe slender brown cat lounges in a rectangular pool of sunlight,<br \/>\ngrinning and scoping the room with one ear that faces any sound.<br \/>\nA woman&#8217;s laugh splashes up from<!--more--> the yard next door. I lean back<br \/>\ninto the couch, admiring black, gold edged rags of crows circling<br \/>\nhigh in the blue. Siesta in Tuscany featured chicken cluckings,<br \/>\nshutters against the heat, and general agreement that the afternoon<br \/>\ncould sleep if it wanted to; our sun gilded cat and I agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The afternoon nap is a tradition we honour around here, when we can. (#981) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/11\/22\/yellow-granite\/\">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":[45,52,3],"tags":[115,793,478,63],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","tag-autumn","tag-relaxing","tag-retirement","tag-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","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=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}