{"id":2702,"date":"2009-12-09T23:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:00:06","slug":"a-half-hour-or-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/09\/a-half-hour-or-so\/","title":{"rendered":"a half hour or so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather clock shifted significantly this morning:<br \/>\nfrom half past autumn to grab-your-boots Winter.<br \/>\nAccess to the street required more effort than has<br \/>\nbeen usual: instead of walking out the door in a light<br \/>\njacket and casual shoes, it was heavy<!--more--> winter gear<br \/>\n(longjohns, heavy pants, T-shirt and work shirt,<br \/>\nthermal parka, fur-lined leather cap, heavy mitts<br \/>\nwith gauntlets, and insulated boots.) After digging<br \/>\nout the above apparel and suiting up, I hunted<br \/>\ndown the salt, the snow scoop and the shovel, while<br \/>\nacknowledging my wife&#8217;s exhortations to be careful.<br \/>\nOnce outside, my body started slowly while I inventoried<br \/>\nmy working parts: muscles shoved, lungs ramped up\u2014<br \/>\n<em>I can still do this<\/em>. Yes, great planet,<br \/>\nI can still repel your mighty fists of wind and snow.<br \/>\nI can push and pile and laugh at your gargantuan engines.<br \/>\nPile snow higher, and higher to the sky\u2014no matter:<br \/>\nI shall mount the very tip top ramparts and become King!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shovelling snow into piles reminded me of &#8220;King of the Castle&#8221;&mdash;a rough and tumble game we  kids used to play on a snowbank. (#998) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/09\/a-half-hour-or-so\/\">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":[164,159,151,991,163],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-driveway","tag-first-snow","tag-season","tag-snow","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}