{"id":3591,"date":"2011-11-07T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:17:31","slug":"sing-a-song-of-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/11\/07\/sing-a-song-of-suspense\/","title":{"rendered":"Sing a Song of Suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before my wife says<br \/>\nlet&#8217;s go grocery shopping<br \/>\nbefore woman say<br \/>\nyou hunt or baby starve<br \/>\nbefore pyramids and capitalism<br \/>\nbefore Walmart and corner store<br \/>\nbefore one percent and ninety-nine<br \/>\nbefore computer and abacus<br \/>\nbefore global warming and fireside chats<br \/>\nbefore bombs and canons and arrows<br \/>\nbefore rocks and affidavits<br \/>\nbefore child soldiers and missionaries<br \/>\nbefore rape gangs and immigration<br \/>\ngenocide and standup comics<br \/>\nthere must have been love in the world.<br \/>\nI know, because my wife smiles as she says<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go grocery shopping.<br \/>\nBut whatever happened to the world&#8217;s smile?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation about love in the world. (#1100) <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2011\/11\/07\/sing-a-song-of-suspense\/\">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":[211],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-greed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","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=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}