{"id":319,"date":"2006-09-30T12:27:19","date_gmt":"2006-09-30T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/30\/killer\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-30T16:32:13","slug":"killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/30\/killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A certain flicker of light<br \/>\nglides through the window pane<br \/>\ncatches a soft cheek;<br \/>\nan eye flicks forty-four degrees<br \/>\nabruptly like a cigarette ash<br \/>\nor a leaf turning in the wind;<br \/>\na mote of dust activates<br \/>\na smoke detector;<br \/>\na spider sets off<br \/>\na motion sensor;<br \/>\na human being <em>[who<br \/>\nused to be a pacifist]<\/em><br \/>\npulls a trigger, ends a life.<\/p>\n<p>What pushes the dust mote<br \/>\ninto the smoke detector?<br \/>\nWhy did that particular<br \/>\natomie set off the alarm<br \/>\nbringing fire trucks and<br \/>\nsirens and ladders and hoses<br \/>\nand men in full fire fighting gear?<br \/>\nWhat stray current of air?<\/p>\n<p>The body lies silent, cooling;<br \/>\nthe gun falls to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosities continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A certain flicker of light glides through the window pane catches a soft cheek; an eye flicks forty-four degrees abruptly like a cigarette ash or a leaf turning in the wind; a mote of dust activates a smoke detector; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/09\/30\/killer\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}