{"id":385,"date":"2006-11-26T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/26\/aniuvak\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T03:49:35","slug":"aniuvak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/26\/aniuvak\/","title":{"rendered":"aniuvak"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[aniuvak: Inuit for snowbank]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A great winter pleasure<br \/>\nfor northern kids is<br \/>\nbuilding a snow fort<br \/>\nof tunnels and rooms carved<br \/>\nin the bowls of a snowbank.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice I said<br \/>\nbuilding is the great pleasure;<br \/>\nthey hardly ever last<br \/>\nbeyond construction.<\/p>\n<p>To make a snow fort<br \/>\nyou need an anuviak,<br \/>\nenergy and a shovel,<br \/>\nand a dream of building<br \/>\na kingdom of one&#8217;s own.<\/p>\n<p>I can remember warrens<br \/>\nof tunnels and rooms<br \/>\nand outlooks and<br \/>\nsecret entrances<br \/>\nand arches and<br \/>\nspires and spy holes<br \/>\nand ammunition<br \/>\n<em>[trans: snowballs]<br \/>\n<\/em>and secret rooms and<br \/>\nhiding for hours<br \/>\nand coming out the next<br \/>\nday to find it busted<br \/>\nand starting over<br \/>\nafter the next storm and<br \/>\nanuviak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[aniuvak: Inuit for snowbank] A great winter pleasure for northern kids is building a snow fort of tunnels and rooms carved in the bowls of a snowbank. You will notice I said building is the great pleasure; they hardly ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/11\/26\/aniuvak\/\">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":[3,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-serial","category-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}