{"id":2963,"date":"2010-01-23T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2010-01-24T22:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:26:34","slug":"glass-silk-ebony-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/23\/glass-silk-ebony-fur\/","title":{"rendered":"glass, silk, ebony, fur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t recall the experiment exactly,<br \/>\nbut it seems to me that rubbing<br \/>\nan ebony rod on cat fur generated<br \/>\nan electric charge.<br \/>\nI say that to distract myself from<br \/>\nthe weeping I did yesterday<br \/>\nwhen I hauled out the suitcase<br \/>\nand discovered it was covered<br \/>\nwith gray cat fur.<br \/>\nMy old gray cat,<br \/>\nwho, until she got too old<br \/>\nand deaf and wobbly,<!--more--><br \/>\nhad more dignity and self-reliance<br \/>\nthan a Special Forces Commando<br \/>\nin full stealth mode&mdash;<br \/>\nwell, she took to lying there<br \/>\nwhen she had to get away<br \/>\nto prepare for death.<br \/>\nThat gray fur from last spring<br \/>\nhad more charge than any<br \/>\nebony rod will ever see.<br \/>\nI wrap you in silk,<br \/>\nbless you with crystal;<br \/>\nand wish you on your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief can catch you unaware. (#1039) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/23\/glass-silk-ebony-fur\/\">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":[45,43,3,416],"tags":[997,129,995,87,201,315,66],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cats","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-aging","tag-beauty","tag-cats","tag-death","tag-health","tag-loss","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","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=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}