{"id":563,"date":"2007-04-28T11:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T16:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/28\/lotus-eaters-1\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T17:28:17","slug":"lotus-eaters-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/28\/lotus-eaters-1\/","title":{"rendered":"lotus eaters 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>driver<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>two one way streets meet<br \/>\nI am waiting at a red light<br \/>\nfor the intersection to clear<br \/>\nso I can turn left<br \/>\n(legal in Ontario)<\/p>\n<p>my car is beside his SUV<br \/>\nto his left at the corner<br \/>\nhe speaks with some feeling to<br \/>\nthe cell phone at his ear<\/p>\n<p>the intersection clears<br \/>\nof cross traffic<br \/>\nI proceed with my left turn<br \/>\nhe is still talking<br \/>\nevidently sees me go<\/p>\n<p>he goes too<br \/>\nstraight through the intersection<br \/>\nand the red light<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how often<br \/>\nhis body does that<br \/>\nwhile his mind<br \/>\nis in another place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>driver two one way streets meet I am waiting at a red light for the intersection to clear so I can turn left (legal in Ontario) my car is beside his SUV to his left at the corner he speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/28\/lotus-eaters-1\/\">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":[52,3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-serial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","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=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}