{"id":2909,"date":"2010-01-16T15:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T20:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2010-01-17T21:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T02:42:14","slug":"poet-has-entered-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/16\/poet-has-entered-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet has entered the building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalashnikovs spurt<br \/>\nattar of nubile iron-manacled<br \/>\nvirgins festooned in gold;<br \/>\nrose blossoms<br \/>\nexplode in miasmas of rubble<br \/>\nand dessicated corpses,<br \/>\natom-thin plasma of rose-petal<br \/>\nembraces gyring teflon-jacketed<br \/>\npetitions sprayed indiscriminate;<!--more--><br \/>\nhonking interrogatives rut in croutons<br \/>\nfresh chopped cabbage greens<br \/>\nputrid carrot scrapings.<br \/>\nSky is ablaze;<br \/>\ndusk promises answers:<br \/>\ncopper and amythest prayers<br \/>\nrocket vertical<br \/>\nbeseech the Great Something to<br \/>\npay attention;<br \/>\nIt Does:<br \/>\nall prayers are Answered;<br \/>\neverything dies; everything lives\u2014<br \/>\nstar-clad virgins writhe;<br \/>\nnothing changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still on the theme of returning to writing after a hiatus caused by illness. (#1032) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/16\/poet-has-entered-the-building\/\">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":[52,7,10,3,416],"tags":[129,87,243,315,215,131,145],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-beauty","tag-death","tag-joy","tag-loss","tag-religion","tag-romance","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","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=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}