{"id":4349,"date":"2017-02-09T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2017-02-09T22:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:22:29","slug":"stone-cold-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/02\/09\/stone-cold-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Cold Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again snot-nosed kid<br \/>\nin snowsuit squirms,<br \/>\nscreams. Woman smacks,<br \/>\nalmost knocks him out<br \/>\nof his stinking squalor<br \/>\nin the shopping cart.<br \/>\nHard eyes confront.<br \/>\nSilence for a preschooler<br \/>\non Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Were he to lie bleeding<br \/>\nunder that cart<br \/>\nor a careless car,<br \/>\nwould she wail and bleat<br \/>\nher fists against<br \/>\nher leaking eyes?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes.<\/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>You have seen parent v. child in grocery stores. Oh, yes. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/02\/09\/stone-cold-love\/\">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":[79,307,145],"class_list":["post-4349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-childhood","tag-parents-and-children","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349","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=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}