{"id":3377,"date":"2010-09-09T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3377"},"modified":"2010-11-27T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T19:28:26","slug":"the-silence-of-the-lotus-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/09\/09\/the-silence-of-the-lotus-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of the Lotus Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barricade yourselves within the music<br \/>\nthat blossoms in your ears like heroin dreams.<br \/>\nNurture the stone silence that extends<br \/>\naround you<br \/>\npenetrated only by the muted steely hissing<br \/>\nescaping like steam from an ancient steel piston.<\/p>\n<p>Garrison yourselves inside your shiny road machines<br \/>\nthat pound the hobbled streets with rhythmic bass.<br \/>\navoid the strident rhetoric of crows<br \/>\nthat only argue over bleeding eyes of roadkill.<\/p>\n<p>Outside your sacred veils of sound<br \/>\nanother nature sings and always has.<br \/>\nIt lives in water, earth and sky<br \/>\nand chants bliss that needs no electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We entomb our lives in electronic fortresses. #1082 <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2010\/09\/09\/the-silence-of-the-lotus-eaters\/\">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":[52,3,416],"tags":[930,145,147],"class_list":["post-3377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-simplicity","tag-social-commentary","tag-social-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377","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=3377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3377\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}