{"id":3534,"date":"2011-04-22T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2011-04-22T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:52:01","slug":"dont-mumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/04\/22\/dont-mumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Mumble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The old guy whittles a stick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wielding a knife that sharp<br \/>\nwith that sloppy skill<br \/>\nhe should cut himself<br \/>\nslice a chunk out<br \/>\nbut he doesn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s going to be either<br \/>\na snake head<br \/>\nor a duck \u2014 but I won&#8217;t speculate.<br \/>\nNot if I want to hang around<br \/>\nand catch shavings of wisdom that<br \/>\npeel off like layers of skin<br \/>\nor ears or spare fingers<br \/>\nor pieces of stick for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>I want to ask him<br \/>\nand I wish I knew the question<br \/>\nbut he knows the answer<br \/>\nif he can remember.<\/p>\n<p>He peers at the slowly molting wood<br \/>\nthrough spectacles almost as cloudy<br \/>\nas my perception of him.<br \/>\nHow can he see what he does?<br \/>\nHow can I see him,<br \/>\nseparated as we are<br \/>\nby his stubborn silence<br \/>\nand my stubborn need<br \/>\nto whittle away?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching wondering about the previous generation. Can we find out what we need to know before we know we need to know it? #1095 <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/04\/22\/dont-mumble\/\">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":[45,3,416],"tags":[997,1002,315,476,307,66],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-aging","tag-family","tag-loss","tag-memory","tag-parents-and-children","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","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=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3537,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}