{"id":335,"date":"2006-11-02T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/02\/illusion\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T01:13:08","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T05:13:08","slug":"illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/02\/illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[An experiment in <a title=\"Wikipedia entry on Sapphic stanzas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sapphic_stanza\">Sapphic stanzas<\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking healthy, smelling like fruit or flowers \u2014<br \/>\nfalse intentions denigrate life unpowered;<br \/>\nsimple pleasures ought to be more respected:<br \/>\nnature unleavened.<\/p>\n<p>Can you tell if people are all they promise?<br \/>\nmasks we wear are certainly all but honest;<br \/>\nHere a nose, and eyes that are retro springtime:<br \/>\ngenes all but wasted.<\/p>\n<p>Teeth so straight that nobody&#8217;d guess the tangle,<br \/>\nLiposuction trimming the waists of starlets<br \/>\ngirdles thinning heroes and ancient rou\u00e9s<br \/>\nsilly ambition.<\/p>\n<p>What if all we had was our own appearance?<br \/>\nWhat if our real selves could be loved regardless?<br \/>\nThen perhaps our lives could take humble pleasures<br \/>\nSimply for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[An experiment in Sapphic stanzas] Looking healthy, smelling like fruit or flowers \u2014 false intentions denigrate life unpowered; simple pleasures ought to be more respected: nature unleavened. Can you tell if people are all they promise? masks we wear are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/02\/illusion\/\">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":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sapphic-stanzas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}