{"id":43,"date":"2006-02-17T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T00:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=43"},"modified":"2008-05-23T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:34:06","slug":"small-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/17\/small-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soft the little boy plays<br \/>\nFingers curling over his<br \/>\nFavourite wooden engine: Thomas<br \/>\nGuiding him and his<br \/>\nMagnetic entourage of wooden cars<br \/>\nChuff-chuff-chuff Choo-choo-choo!<br \/>\nAlong the linked wooden track<br \/>\nTowards silent Edgar<br \/>\nWaiting on a siding with his array;<\/p>\n<p>Across the room, the boy\u2019s Daddy<br \/>\nMy son plays another game<br \/>\nWith a chequebook<br \/>\nGuiding it along the<br \/>\nWouldn\u2019t-couldn\u2019t Cheque-cheque-cheque<br \/>\nWreckage of the month.<a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So soon serious<br \/>\nHe is a good man<br \/>\nTrying his best<br \/>\nTo fuel the fiery furnace:<br \/>\nDrive his economic train<br \/>\nUp its steep mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The little guy squeals in delight<br \/>\nAs he smashes Thomas into Edgar:<br \/>\nChaos rules; Hoo-ooo-oo! the engine<br \/>\nHollers through his lips.<br \/>\n\u201cSean? What are you doing?\u201d<br \/>\nDaddy asks.<br \/>\n\u201cThomas crashed right into<br \/>\nEdgar and Thomas won!\u201d<br \/>\nHa-ha-ha Hoo-ooo-oo!<br \/>\nSean laughs, hilariously.<\/p>\n<p>My son smiles.<br \/>\nHe knows a better story<br \/>\nWhen he sees one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soft the little boy plays Fingers curling over his Favourite wooden engine: Thomas Guiding him and his Magnetic entourage of wooden cars Chuff-chuff-chuff Choo-choo-choo! Along the linked wooden track Towards silent Edgar Waiting on a siding with his array; Across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/17\/small-universe\/\">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":[79,307],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-childhood","tag-parents-and-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}