{"id":395,"date":"2006-12-05T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T19:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/05\/snow-death\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:30:06","slug":"snow-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/05\/snow-death\/","title":{"rendered":"snow death"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[More snow information for your amusement] <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I once killed my ears for an hour or so<\/p>\n<p>every day after school in winter<br \/>\nthe cross-country ski team<br \/>\nused to wax up and take to the trail<br \/>\nout back for a little scoot around<br \/>\non our skis. Training it was<br \/>\nmainly to see the old Finn<br \/>\npass us on his parallel trail.<br \/>\nHe knew how to wax<br \/>\nhe knew how to stride long<br \/>\nhow to glide efficiently<br \/>\neach stride he took was a purposeful<br \/>\neasy advance for which he<br \/>\nhardly seemed to breathe.<br \/>\nWhy we didn&#8217;t beg him for help<br \/>\nis still beyond me.<br \/>\nWe were like babies next to<br \/>\nthis old guy in his seventies.<br \/>\nHe had lovely slender arched hickory<br \/>\nboards that were his magic carpet<br \/>\nwe were grunting along on<br \/>\nskis made for downhill racing.<br \/>\nThe cruelest cut of all came<br \/>\nthe time I arrived back at<br \/>\nthe autoshop that we skied out of<br \/>\nand they told me my ears were frozen.<\/p>\n<p>I looked in the mirror<br \/>\nthey were standing<br \/>\nstraight off my head,<br \/>\nswollen, red, caked in<br \/>\nwhite frost a half-inch thick<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t I like<br \/>\ncross-country skiing more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[More snow information for your amusement] I once killed my ears for an hour or so every day after school in winter the cross-country ski team used to wax up and take to the trail out back for a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/05\/snow-death\/\">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-395","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\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}