{"id":38,"date":"2006-02-21T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T23:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-10-04T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:12:30","slug":"soft-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/21\/soft-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring struck again today without the sun<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nDark cloud, damp wind, gray ice that oozed gray sweat<br \/>\nNo sense was there that winter would forget<br \/>\nTo pitch its hoary winds and freeze my bum.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>I hopped the puddles knowing snow must come<br \/>\nThis spring is just the lie we often get<br \/>\nThat makes some flee to summer on a jet<br \/>\nUntil the storms of March have fled, undone.<\/p>\n<p>So, head down, hopping mud and slush and ice<br \/>\nI picked my way bemoaning weather&#8217;s wrath<br \/>\nAbjuring sky and sun and stars and hope<br \/>\nFor wishes are at best a failed device<br \/>\nBut then I saw a friend astride the path<br \/>\nWho, smiling, hit me summer with one stroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring struck again today without the sun Dark cloud, damp wind, gray ice that oozed gray sweat No sense was there that winter would forget To pitch its hoary winds and freeze my bum. I hopped the puddles knowing snow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/21\/soft-sell\/\">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":[3,12],"tags":[314,152,994,377,77],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-sonnets","tag-old-friends","tag-rhymed","tag-scapes","tag-snow-melting","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","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=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4139,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}