{"id":408,"date":"2006-12-17T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/17\/mountain-and-river\/"},"modified":"2006-12-17T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T01:19:47","slug":"mountain-and-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/17\/mountain-and-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain and river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some say the answer<br \/>\nis at the top of a mountain:<br \/>\nat the peak<br \/>\nlives a wizard<br \/>\nwith all the answers<br \/>\nto all the questions.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to feel<br \/>\nmore connected to something<br \/>\nat the shore of a river<br \/>\nmore exactly<br \/>\non an island in the middle<br \/>\nwhere I can watch<br \/>\npassages to and from<br \/>\nthe ocean:<br \/>\npass to the ocean<br \/>\nfor a jolt of life;<br \/>\npass inland for<br \/>\na place to use it.<\/p>\n<p>As for a mountain<br \/>\nit gives you perspective<br \/>\nyou can get nowhere else:<br \/>\nhow far down in the valley<br \/>\nwe all live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say the answer is at the top of a mountain: at the peak lives a wizard with all the answers to all the questions. I tend to feel more connected to something at the shore of a river more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/17\/mountain-and-river\/\">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":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-trip-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}