{"id":351,"date":"2006-10-25T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T03:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/26\/sidewalk\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T14:22:17","slug":"sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/25\/sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I could tell by the approach<br \/>\nneat pale fresh scrubbed haircuts<br \/>\nwearing conservative suits<br \/>\npleasant non-commital smiles<\/p>\n<p>I could tell by their eyes<br \/>\nthey were mormons<br \/>\non an evangelical mission<br \/>\nto introduce me to Jesus<\/p>\n<p>I could tell but don&#8217;t know why<br \/>\nthey assumed I knew<br \/>\nnothing about Big J<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>or about them<\/p>\n<p>I gave them a smile and<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>took control<br \/>\n<em>Hi. You new in town?<br \/>\n<\/em>Not a good plan, but a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we talked about Big J<br \/>\nand a little about the Book<br \/>\nof Mormon<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>and then<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font><font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>digressed<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>into talk about<br \/>\nthe weather and<br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">*.***<\/font>how tough this street is<br \/>\nand before you knew it<\/p>\n<p>I was on my way<br \/>\nand I have to say<br \/>\nI was feeling saved shaved<br \/>\nor sheared \u2014 take your pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could tell by the approach neat pale fresh scrubbed haircuts wearing conservative suits pleasant non-commital smiles I could tell by their eyes they were mormons on an evangelical mission to introduce me to Jesus I could tell but don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/25\/sidewalk\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}