{"id":2630,"date":"2011-02-12T07:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2630"},"modified":"2011-02-12T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T12:56:24","slug":"these-old-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/02\/12\/these-old-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"these old poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading these old poems as they age<br \/>\nthese poems I had dug out of<\/p>\n<p>pressed orchids and fungi<br \/>\nwinter memories of spring<br \/>\nashes of summers past<br \/>\nthe song of snow hissing<br \/>\nthe hollow melody of moon<br \/>\nthe forgiveness of sand<br \/>\nand so much else<br \/>\nthat bleeds or sings<br \/>\nor glistens in an eye<\/p>\n<p>Reading these old poems<br \/>\nresurrects the prayers<br \/>\nthat haunted dreams<br \/>\niterated by desiccated lips<br \/>\nhurled like clicking chicken bones<br \/>\nat the stumbling feet of the dinosaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry digs into old wounds or sows new seeds \u2014 you take your choice. #1088 <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/02\/12\/these-old-poems\/\">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":[45,3,416],"tags":[997,476],"class_list":["post-2630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-aging","tag-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630","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=2630"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2630\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}