{"id":4238,"date":"2016-11-13T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2016-11-13T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T16:44:53","slug":"rockmallow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2016\/11\/13\/rockmallow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockmallow 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fever twists the edge<br \/>\nof blade and pillow:<br \/>\neyes have pinpoint irises;<br \/>\nthumbs are gargantuan.<br \/>\nHe shrinks within the body,<br \/>\nbecomes a pin<br \/>\nin a spoor<br \/>\nin a mushroom<br \/>\nin orbit around the bed.<br \/>\nHe watches the body<br \/>\ntangled in damp flannel sheets<br \/>\non the surgeon&#8217;s table.<br \/>\nHe drifts, he drifts, he drifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a revision of my poem, &#8220;Rockmallow&#8221;, originally posted in wordcurrents on November 19, 2009. In the poem, I depict the sensation I felt as a child with a severe fever. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2016\/11\/13\/rockmallow-2\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","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=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4240,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}