{"id":490,"date":"2007-02-23T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/23\/king-of-the-castle\/"},"modified":"2007-02-23T14:13:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T19:13:42","slug":"king-of-the-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/23\/king-of-the-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"king of the castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>I&#8217;m the king of the castle,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>and you&#8217;re the dirty rascals!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it was a call to a dare:<br \/>\n<em>get me down, if you can!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Children in snowsuits and parkas ran up<br \/>\nthe snowbank to flail at the yelling kid<br \/>\nand try to haul him down<\/p>\n<p>The bigger the guy<br \/>\nthe more the girls wanted<br \/>\nto tackle him \u2014<br \/>\nit was an exciting mystery<br \/>\nthe closeness of a girl<br \/>\neven one bundled in<br \/>\na snowsuit: her<br \/>\nvoice was higher, softer her<br \/>\nunderstanding of the fun you were having<br \/>\nmore deliberate and strangely exhilerating<\/p>\n<p>rolling breathless down the bank<br \/>\nwrapped with a tackling girl<br \/>\nseemed worth losing, more like<br \/>\nwinning as you<br \/>\ngot older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the king of the castle, and you&#8217;re the dirty rascals! it was a call to a dare: get me down, if you can! Children in snowsuits and parkas ran up the snowbank to flail at the yelling kid and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/02\/23\/king-of-the-castle\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}