{"id":4040,"date":"2014-04-08T19:47:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2014-04-08T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:48:57","slug":"meditation-on-a-row-of-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/08\/meditation-on-a-row-of-pines\/","title":{"rendered":"Meditation on a Row of Pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I were to choose a background<br \/>\nfor our family photo<br \/>\nthat crusty old stand of knobby knees<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t be it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d put us in front of a graceful row<br \/>\nof Tuscan cypress<br \/>\nby an ancient marble fountain<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t I<\/p>\n<p>Well, a stately receding row<br \/>\nof ancient oaks<br \/>\nwith mown lawns and a pond of swans<br \/>\nwould \u2014<\/p>\n<p>Those pines were old fifty years ago<br \/>\ndark, scarred, leaned by the wry west wind.<br \/>\nWe stand on their sienna needles and cones.<br \/>\nWould you take the picture now, please?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/01\/cruel-gruel-2\/napowrimo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4009\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4009\" alt=\"NaPoWriMo\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-220x200.png 220w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-330x300.png 330w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo.png 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NaPoWriMo 8: Photography has its demands: I&#8217;m not ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/08\/meditation-on-a-row-of-pines\/\">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":[890,3],"tags":[997,129,1002,62],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-beauty","tag-family","tag-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","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=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}