{"id":308,"date":"2006-09-23T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/23\/polite\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T17:11:00","slug":"polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/23\/polite\/","title":{"rendered":"Polite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He smiles gently,<br \/>\nand all is still:<br \/>\na fly squats briefly<br \/>\n<span class=\"postbody\"> on his forehead<br \/>\nabove his good eye<br \/>\nthen investigates<br \/>\nthe cooling carcass.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He has finished his work<br \/>\nbeen paid, cleaned his<br \/>\nblade, holstered the hammer,<br \/>\nwiped the red spatter<br \/>\noff his arms; the pig<br \/>\nlies mute nearby,<br \/>\nalready bacon in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>He smiles gently again,<br \/>\nturns and heads off<br \/>\ndown the dusty road<br \/>\ntowards the converted shack<br \/>\nwhere his wayward wife<br \/>\nand little girl of seven<br \/>\nwill soon face<br \/>\nthe same deliberate smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He smiles gently, and all is still: a fly squats briefly on his forehead above his good eye then investigates the cooling carcass.<\/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-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}