{"id":33,"date":"2006-02-25T02:17:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T07:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-05-23T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:06:04","slug":"waiting-for-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/25\/waiting-for-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for grandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Or: disadvantages of having an imagination . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until recently, my standard ripost was that<br \/>\nPeople over sixty with marriageable children<br \/>\nStill had sex<br \/>\nTo guarantee they would have grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>All that has changed:<br \/>\nNow, waiting for grandchildren<br \/>\nMeans waiting for the car to<br \/>\nPull into the icy driveway.<\/p>\n<p>That is my current preoccupation:<br \/>\nThey started out over three hours ago,<br \/>\nAnd are now almost an hour overdue.<\/p>\n<p>I picture carseats hurtling though windshields<br \/>\nVehicles overturned in the ditch, occupants freezing<br \/>\nBlood, screaming, torn flesh, broken bones \u2014<br \/>\nAh, here they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: disadvantages of having an imagination . . . Until recently, my standard ripost was that People over sixty with marriageable children Still had sex To guarantee they would have grandchildren. All that has changed: Now, waiting for grandchildren Means &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/25\/waiting-for-grandchildren\/\">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":[2,3],"tags":[454,332],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","tag-fears","tag-grandchildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}