{"id":4071,"date":"2014-04-14T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2014-04-14T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T15:00:05","slug":"drowning-in-a-drop-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/14\/drowning-in-a-drop-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Drowning in a drop of water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swaying is his natural state<br \/>\nsea legs he calls it<br \/>\nas he returns the little<br \/>\ntumbler of booze<br \/>\nto its spot in the kitchen<br \/>\ncupboard, complete with<br \/>\noversize jam jar lid<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to<br \/>\ninterrupt him<br \/>\nI would move heaven<br \/>\nto keep his nest silent<br \/>\nand earth<br \/>\nto still the tremors<br \/>\nthat rumble our floors<br \/>\nand stairs and<br \/>\nthe hall outside our bedrooms<\/p>\n<p>The tumbler is a<br \/>\nmagic act kept private<br \/>\nalways partly full<br \/>\nno mystery:<br \/>\nthe daily bottle of Dewars<br \/>\nhidden somewhere safe<br \/>\nwill testify to that<\/p>\n<p>He does not ascribe<br \/>\nto humour<br \/>\nthe discrete nips<br \/>\na gentleman sneaks<br \/>\nin his own home<br \/>\nanother of the perks<br \/>\nof being a veteran<br \/>\nand having a house<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for<br \/>\nhis barely repressed<br \/>\ntemper simmering<br \/>\nlike steel cut porridge<br \/>\nsimmering overnight<br \/>\non low heat<br \/>\nin a lidded pot<\/p>\n<p>We are all drowning<br \/>\nin this house<br \/>\nin a lidded tumbler<br \/>\ncontaining heavily<br \/>\nprocessed water<br \/>\nin his case<br \/>\none drop is all<br \/>\nit takes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 14: there is more than one way to drown. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/14\/drowning-in-a-drop-of-water\/\">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],"tags":[718,1002,101,307],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","tag-alcoholism","tag-family","tag-fear","tag-parents-and-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}