{"id":417,"date":"2006-12-26T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T02:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/26\/seasonal\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T16:31:15","slug":"seasonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/26\/seasonal\/","title":{"rendered":"seasonal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In late December<br \/>\nwhen the days are dark and the ground is light<br \/>\nwe living seek comfort of heat and light<br \/>\nwhile some dying choose the cold comfort of the dark earth<\/p>\n<p>We find solace where we can<br \/>\nin a hot meal a warming drink<br \/>\na soft embrace a friendly smile<br \/>\na shawl a song a communal dance<br \/>\ndinner with friends or family<br \/>\nand laughter<br \/>\nlots of that<\/p>\n<p>Our planet lives in a cold space<br \/>\nbetween Venus and Mars<br \/>\nit rotates revolves declines<\/p>\n<p>If a certain star rises at a certain time in a certain place<br \/>\nit is time to climb the pyramid<br \/>\nand hear the blood<br \/>\nand say the words<br \/>\nthat open the unclosing blue eye<br \/>\nthat bathes in the yellow heat of the angelic star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late December when the days are dark and the ground is light we living seek comfort of heat and light while some dying choose the cold comfort of the dark earth We find solace where we can in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/12\/26\/seasonal\/\">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":[45,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}