{"id":4355,"date":"2017-02-12T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2017-02-12T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:32:31","slug":"the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/02\/12\/the-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the evening, we surrender to\u00a0our<br \/>\nscreens: they command, we submit.<br \/>\nSound-cancelling\u00a0headphones for me;<br \/>\nsome use\u00a0earbuds. No one speaks.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful lady, may I<br \/>\nslide my fingers into your ears?<br \/>\nYou do not hear me:\u00a0your earbuds<br \/>\nblock my fingers. No one speaks.<\/p>\n<p>Too intimate you say<br \/>\n\u2014would say, if I could enter you.<br \/>\nWait: a child is dying; her<br \/>\nmother and I weep, on Netflix.<br \/>\nNo one speaks.<\/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>Modern escapism. <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2017\/02\/12\/the-silence\/\">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":[145],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","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=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}