{"id":328,"date":"2006-10-06T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T18:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/06\/jacknife\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T11:35:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T16:35:16","slug":"jacknife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/06\/jacknife\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacknife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"postbody\"> In my two childhoods<br \/>\nin this life<br \/>\nI have had a jacknife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To carve and whittle<br \/>\nwith great care<br \/>\nand carry everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>When I ran around<br \/>\nin short pants<br \/>\njacknife was my best friend:<\/p>\n<p>He could cut a stick<br \/>\noff a tree,<br \/>\nand carve things for me:<\/p>\n<p>A willow whistle<br \/>\nin the spring,<br \/>\nand on birthdays, cut string.<\/p>\n<p>As I grew older<br \/>\nmy delight<br \/>\nwas a utility knife<\/p>\n<p>with spoons and scissors<br \/>\nand every part<br \/>\nfor a handy man&#8217;s wishing heart.<\/p>\n<p>But now whittling tree<br \/>\n&#8216;s good for me:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m way past utility.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Revised October 8]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my two childhoods in this life I have had a jacknife. To carve and whittle with great care and carry everywhere. When I ran around in short pants jacknife was my best friend: He could cut a stick off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/06\/jacknife\/\">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":[45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}