{"id":2940,"date":"2010-01-20T22:32:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T03:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2010-01-21T20:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:27:11","slug":"compared-to-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/20\/compared-to-what\/","title":{"rendered":"compared to what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>People ask the old guy how he is.<br \/>\nPerhaps there is a twinkle in his eye<br \/>\nwhen he says,<\/em> compared to what?<br \/>\n<em>He must know they don&#8217;t want<br \/>\nan organ recital, but you can see<br \/>\nhe is thinking of opening some stops.<\/em><br \/>\nCompared to age forty <!--more-->when daffodils<br \/>\nwere giving over to roses and columbine,<br \/>\nI am a bit withered and need watering.<br \/>\nBut compared to when I was sick and sixty-five,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a stand of echinacea at the peak of August.<br \/>\n<em>There are flowers and there are old men;<br \/>\nthere are young men old and old men young.<br \/>\nThe question is this: are the old men<br \/>\nworking on the flowers or under them?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People like to ask me how I am. I&#8217;m coming to think the answer is a matter of relativity. (#1036) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/20\/compared-to-what\/\">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":[45,3,416],"tags":[997,880,129,201],"class_list":["post-2940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-aging","tag-attitude","tag-beauty","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}