{"id":4334,"date":"2017-01-22T21:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2017-01-22T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T02:47:28","slug":"time-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/22\/time-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Time shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters I wrote so long ago<br \/>\ntied together in their tattered envelopes<br \/>\nlike an oven-roasted brick of fossils.<\/p>\n<p>I was so frantic and so far from you<br \/>\nmy panic was restrained to epic<br \/>\nby butterflies and impossibility.<\/p>\n<p>I see the microscope<br \/>\nthat was my mind<br \/>\nthrough the telescope of time.<\/p>\n<p>Archaeologist, astronomer, Odysseus,<br \/>\nI search the rubble of those stars,<br \/>\nfind humour in those words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/22\/time-shift\/facebookgraphicverse_j\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4337\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4337\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j-150x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j-150x79.png 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/FacebookGraphicVerse_j.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a pack of letters written before we were married, more than a half-century ago. Ya gotta laff. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/01\/22\/time-shift\/\">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":[997,57,66],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-humour","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334","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=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4339,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}