{"id":279,"date":"2006-09-12T12:48:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/12\/on-being-an-object-of-concern\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T13:40:04","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:40:04","slug":"on-being-an-object-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/12\/on-being-an-object-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"On being an object of concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Island Fun Day<br \/>\nHad food, music, family, friends<br \/>\nAs promised; the river greyed out<br \/>\nFinely misted us until a tarp went up<br \/>\nBy then the musicians under their own<br \/>\nCanopy stopped playing and it was<br \/>\nJust a gang of us under the leaky tarp<!--more--><br \/>\nGossipping, laughing, damp but happy.<br \/>\nMy main claims to fame were the<br \/>\n<em>Cottage Life<\/em> magazine article and<br \/>\nMy recent hospital stay, but I looked<br \/>\nBetter they all said. And this<br \/>\nWas a regression day for me, so<br \/>\nI guess I was previously quite a mess.<br \/>\nLooked better, felt worse: on a scale of<br \/>\nOne to ten, the party was a seven,<br \/>\nThe day was a four, the food was a nine<br \/>\nThe people were a ten, and I&#8217;d say I was<br \/>\nAbout a six. Not bad for an object of concern<br \/>\nWho had privately considered not going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Island Fun Day Had food, music, family, friends As promised; the river greyed out Finely misted us until a tarp went up By then the musicians under their own Canopy stopped playing and it was Just a gang of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/12\/on-being-an-object-of-concern\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}