{"id":291,"date":"2006-09-16T20:50:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-17T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/16\/a-visit-by-friends\/"},"modified":"2006-09-17T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-17T11:45:13","slug":"a-visit-by-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/16\/a-visit-by-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit by friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as a release,<br \/>\nI stowed the whole canvas roof of the boat:<br \/>\nIt looked sporty, jaunty<br \/>\nNo longer the utility boat<br \/>\nFestive now, for friends were coming:<!--more--><br \/>\nCompanions in the villa in Tuscany,<br \/>\nAt pre-theatre dinners, like us<br \/>\nLovers of theatre onstage and off:<br \/>\nComing with relatives from England.<\/p>\n<p>I drove the jaunty boat, toured the island,<br \/>\nChatted, barbequed, finally<br \/>\nCrept off for an hour&#8217;s nap,<br \/>\nFor friends understand, encourage naps,<br \/>\nThen, after another spectacular<br \/>\nMauve-golden sunset, drove<br \/>\nThem back in the jaunty open boat<br \/>\nIn the warm yawning dusk over the<br \/>\nCalming river to their car.<\/p>\n<p>A success, the visit: a swim,<br \/>\nTwo polite teens, one hiding something sad,<br \/>\nA glimpse of a family trying to live<br \/>\nA normal life, and not surprisingly,<br \/>\nNot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, as a release, I stowed the whole canvas roof of the boat: It looked sporty, jaunty No longer the utility boat Festive now, for friends were coming:<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}