{"id":323,"date":"2006-10-02T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/02\/reaching\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T17:45:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T21:45:53","slug":"reaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/02\/reaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the small corner of the universe,<br \/>\nthis corner of the solar system<br \/>\nthat I inhabit, rotating around Sol,<br \/>\nsheltered, I am pleased to say, by those<br \/>\nimpact-absorbing gas giants and<br \/>\nour own cratered moon and<!--more--><br \/>\nthe ozone layer and our greenhouse<br \/>\nof carbon dioxide, and our magnetic field<br \/>\nand continental drift, and<br \/>\nmy own clothing and sunscreen, for that matter \u2014<br \/>\nin this little corner I putter<br \/>\nand potter quite unremarkably<br \/>\nby even my own standards,<br \/>\nwhen I have any,<br \/>\nwatching \u2014 <em>mirabile dictu<\/em>! \u2014 when<br \/>\ngreater lights flash across the skies.<br \/>\nI know that occasionally my candle<br \/>\nflickers \u2014 perhaps gutters is a better<br \/>\nword for what I do \u2014 and then I know<br \/>\nwith some degree of certainty<br \/>\nthat I too can reach for stars<br \/>\neven if they are so far away, and<br \/>\nI am stretching my fingers down towards<br \/>\na reflection in a puddle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the small corner of the universe, this corner of the solar system that I inhabit, rotating around Sol, sheltered, I am pleased to say, by those impact-absorbing gas giants and our own cratered moon and<\/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-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}