{"id":4254,"date":"2016-11-15T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T16:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4254"},"modified":"2016-11-16T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T12:54:19","slug":"dad-was-a-drunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2016\/11\/15\/dad-was-a-drunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad was a Drunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hack out tongues lest they ignite<br \/>\nashes that have lain long out of light:<br \/>\nfists on ears, eyes wired shut<br \/>\ninhale, exhale, hale enough.<\/p>\n<p>Better all these years of lying<br \/>\nboarded in soggy cotton silence.<\/p>\n<p>Time is distance, halted breath<br \/>\nbreathing into its own undeath.<\/p>\n<p>Memory waited, piling stones:<br \/>\nweapons for execution poems.<\/p>\n<p>Crushing words as they emerged<br \/>\nhushed, into public, fully purged.<\/p>\n<p>Less we regret the pain expanded<br \/>\nglass to mouth and we understand it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2014\/01\/25\/snug\/versesq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3898\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3898\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-150x150.png\" alt=\"verse logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/versesq.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspective on a youth spent under the tyranny of a drunk. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2016\/11\/15\/dad-was-a-drunk\/\">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":[45,2,3],"tags":[386,997,1002,276,476,307,66],"class_list":["post-4254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-creative-writing","category-poetry","tag-addiction","tag-aging","tag-family","tag-irony","tag-memory","tag-parents-and-children","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254","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=4254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4254\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}