{"id":4107,"date":"2014-04-20T23:44:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:26:09","slug":"trident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/20\/trident\/","title":{"rendered":"Trident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Poseidon<br \/>\nhad wielded it<br \/>\nlike a magic wand<br \/>\nunder the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Three worn,<br \/>\nstill-sharp<br \/>\nsteel tines<br \/>\ncurved to a common<br \/>\ncylindrical base<br \/>\nthat gripped<br \/>\na weathered<br \/>\nworn old pole<br \/>\nlong enough<br \/>\nto grab the dock<br \/>\nwith the bent tine.<\/p>\n<p>He used to spear<br \/>\nmud pouts<br \/>\nin fresh spring<br \/>\nwhen dandelions<br \/>\nbloomed along the shore.<\/p>\n<p>Now he was as dead<br \/>\nas Poseidon<br \/>\nand although<br \/>\nhe could never<br \/>\nhold pitch<br \/>\nto sing out<br \/>\nover the waves<br \/>\nthe trident<br \/>\ncould still<br \/>\nsing of him<br \/>\nfor his great<br \/>\ngrand children.<\/p>\n<p>Whose eyes<br \/>\ngrew wide<br \/>\nas we sang<br \/>\nhis mighty<br \/>\nsilly deeds.<\/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\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/NaPoWriMo-150x136.png\" alt=\"NaPoWriMo\" 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 20: A remnant of times past weaves into legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/04\/20\/trident\/\">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":[997,288,476,307,121],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-napowrimo","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-cottage","tag-memory","tag-parents-and-children","tag-st-lawrence-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","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=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}