{"id":2987,"date":"2010-01-26T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T04:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2010-01-27T23:44:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:44:06","slug":"crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/26\/crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the corner of two main streets<br \/>\nhe waits to cross.<br \/>\nNewspaper headlines cry<br \/>\nDeath at the Corner!<br \/>\nHe wonders if a driver&#8217;s inattention<br \/>\nis the equivalent of a bomb<br \/>\nin a library.<br \/>\nHe can hear the librarian<br \/>\nshushing the bomber.<!--more--><br \/>\nHe wonders if that kid<br \/>\non the cell phone<br \/>\nat the next table<br \/>\nis texting the driver<br \/>\nof the approaching car.<br \/>\nA gust of wind<br \/>\ngives him a nudge:<br \/>\nhe steps off the curb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedestrians seem to be fair game on city streets. What&#8217;s with drivers, anyway? (#1042) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/01\/26\/crossing\/\">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":[7,3,416],"tags":[881,87,101,147],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-careless-drivers","tag-death","tag-fear","tag-social-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}