{"id":415,"date":"2006-12-24T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/24\/dinner-for-nine-iv\/"},"modified":"2006-12-24T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T19:49:02","slug":"dinner-for-nine-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/24\/dinner-for-nine-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner for nine IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I savored the tender<br \/>\ndelicately spiced chicken<br \/>\nin steamed rice onion gentle ginger<br \/>\nthe serving girl softly refilled<br \/>\nmy water glass<br \/>\nand generous friendly words<br \/>\ncombined around the table<br \/>\ncheffed by our hearts<br \/>\nchosen from the impromtu<br \/>\nmenu of delight and<br \/>\nearnest contemplation.<\/p>\n<p>What had begun<br \/>\nas a comedy of errors<br \/>\nfalse starts and arguments<br \/>\nhad aligned with the stars<br \/>\nin the Indian restaurent<br \/>\nand mother father daughter<br \/>\nhusband niece sister husband<br \/>\nfiance son had all joined<br \/>\nblended in harmony<br \/>\nnew yet ancient<br \/>\ncomic delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I savored the tender delicately spiced chicken in steamed rice onion gentle ginger the serving girl softly refilled my water glass and generous friendly words combined around the table cheffed by our hearts chosen from the impromtu menu of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/24\/dinner-for-nine-iv\/\">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-415","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\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}