{"id":358,"date":"2006-10-30T23:11:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T03:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/30\/death-of-fathers\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T01:19:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T05:19:36","slug":"death-of-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/30\/death-of-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"death of fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So little said, implied, expressed;<br \/>\nsuch silence entombed in cameraderie:<br \/>\na rock in the desert speaks more truth.<\/p>\n<p>O father keep your silent soul alone<br \/>\nsuch maleness steeps the hunt<br \/>\nand blesses courage for the battle of<br \/>\nthe day the week the year<\/p>\n<p>The lesson that you taught me I shall teach:<br \/>\nto seal the wound, protect the heart,<br \/>\nand never, ever yield; yes I shall fight!<\/p>\n<p>But that one time I thought<br \/>\nI saw your eye soften<br \/>\nwhose weakness was that?<br \/>\nyours, whose eye it was?<br \/>\nor I who saw the eye?<br \/>\ndid you teach me too well?<\/p>\n<p>Of course I was mistaken<br \/>\nI have learned the lesson well<br \/>\nand shall resume my silence<br \/>\nand my guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So little said, implied, expressed; such silence entombed in cameraderie: a rock in the desert speaks more truth. O father keep your silent soul alone such maleness steeps the hunt and blesses courage for the battle of the day the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/10\/30\/death-of-fathers\/\">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-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}