{"id":547,"date":"2007-04-14T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/14\/s\/"},"modified":"2007-04-14T13:22:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T18:22:41","slug":"s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/14\/s\/","title":{"rendered":"S"},"content":{"rendered":"

“S<\/strong>“, like “U” and “C”
\nis a kind of rocking horse letter
\nwithout a firm base:
\nalways moving \u2014
\na little evasive.<\/p>\n

S<\/strong>ometimes it’s S<\/strong>trong,
\nS<\/strong>ometimes it’s S<\/strong>lithery-S<\/strong>hifty<\/p>\n

Now, if you ask S<\/strong>cribes
\nwho live on mountaintops
\nthey will S<\/strong>ay
\nyou can’t blame a letter
\nfor the words it’s in \u2014
\nBut I disagree with that:
\nS<\/strong>omehow, people attract
\nthe company they keep,
\nand I think that’s true of
\nletters, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“S“, like “U” and “C” is a kind of rocking horse letter without a firm base: always moving \u2014 a little evasive. Sometimes it’s Strong, Sometimes it’s Slithery-Shifty Now, if you ask Scribes who live on mountaintops they will Say … Continue reading →<\/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":[47,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphabet","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","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=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}