{"id":2790,"date":"2009-12-23T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2009-12-24T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:55:41","slug":"what-looks-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/23\/what-looks-back\/","title":{"rendered":"what looks back"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>you can avoid locking glances with inevitability<br \/>\nif you focus on the banal<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do not look at the sun, even in eclipse;<br \/>\nyou will go blind, they say, but they hide<br \/>\nthe truth: the sun will look back.<br \/>\nAnd in that retina-searing instant, it will know<br \/>\nyour secret heart&#8217;s perfect lies.<\/p>\n<p>Do not look for the evil eye, even in the<br \/>\ndepths of the dark valley,<!--more--> to cast it out,<br \/>\nfor it will know you and know your name<br \/>\nand cause it to be written in your blood<br \/>\non the adamantine tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Do not look for God in the depths<br \/>\nof the valley, nor in the heart of the sun,<br \/>\nfor He will rejoice and call you to Him<br \/>\nbefore you are ready. Rather, watch TV:<br \/>\nIt doesn&#8217;t watch back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe the vacuity of reality has its uses. (#1012) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/12\/23\/what-looks-back\/\">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":[3,416],"tags":[215,133],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-religion","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}