{"id":3988,"date":"2014-03-23T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T12:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2014-03-23T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T12:03:17","slug":"the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/03\/23\/the-fifth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South (so soft, that word)<br \/>\nof the river, the fifth<br \/>\nis a bottle of consolation<\/p>\n<p>North (so hard that R)<br \/>\ntoday sun scatters<br \/>\nblue shadows on banks of snow<br \/>\nthat ended the fifth<br \/>\nsad excuse for Spring<\/p>\n<p>oh, we groan<br \/>\nunder this white wait<br \/>\nno, endure<br \/>\nthis fifth disappoint<br \/>\nmeant to be flowers<\/p>\n<p>This fifth we wish<br \/>\nwe could drink<br \/>\nbut cannot.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom&#8217;s up!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3888\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/17\/first-spring\/screedsq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3888\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3888\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/screedsq-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screed Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3888\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A(d) verse complaint<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yes,, folks that was our fifth false spring \u2014 after the damn teasing equinox. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/03\/23\/the-fifth\/\">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":[3,17,28],"tags":[276,62,63,77,163],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-screeds","category-snow","tag-irony","tag-nature","tag-seasons","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","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=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3989,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}