{"id":430,"date":"2007-01-06T15:28:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T20:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/06\/from-the-archive-green-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T15:28:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T20:28:38","slug":"from-the-archive-green-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/06\/from-the-archive-green-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Archive: &#8220;Green Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[I wrote this piece when we had a warm, no-snow Christmas in 1965, I think.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Green Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">*******<\/font> \u2014 middle of the carol of devotion<br \/>\nThey felt warm air wash \u2014 snow ebb \u2014 and they shivered<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*******<\/font>\u2014 and soon the crisp clear jingle bells<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*******<\/font>were clicky buds ad suddedly the sdow was god.<br \/>\nAnd brown slush and rain and wet wool coats<br \/>\nAnd limp brown bows that blacked and mourned<br \/>\nWere what was left.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\">*******<\/font>They sat by fireplace, backs of heads to black window:<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*******<\/font>&#8220;A green Christmas is an ill omen,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n<font color=\"white\">*******<\/font>&#8220;I think not of omens,&#8221; he said, and wicker shivered.<\/p>\n<p>Jiggle buds clicked lonely on the door<br \/>\nAnd jiggledeverbore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I wrote this piece when we had a warm, no-snow Christmas in 1965, I think.] Green Christmas ******* \u2014 middle of the carol of devotion They felt warm air wash \u2014 snow ebb \u2014 and they shivered *******\u2014 and soon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/01\/06\/from-the-archive-green-christmas\/\">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":[18,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}