{"id":564,"date":"2007-04-29T12:37:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T17:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/29\/lotus-eaters-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-02T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T02:37:23","slug":"lotus-eaters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/29\/lotus-eaters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"lotus eaters 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I, poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I stand by my fireplace<br \/>\nbefore a gathering of friends<br \/>\nand start to speak<br \/>\nof life, the meaning of<br \/>\nof religion, the possibility of<br \/>\nof just about anything<br \/>\nthey will listen for a bit<br \/>\nthen speak themselves<br \/>\nwhen I become too much to bear<\/p>\n<p>But<\/p>\n<p>If I stand by my fireplace<br \/>\nbefore a gathering of friends<br \/>\nand start to read<br \/>\na poem about<br \/>\nlife, the meaning of<br \/>\nreligion, the possibility of<br \/>\nor just about anything<br \/>\nthey will listen to the end<br \/>\nand even later<br \/>\nin days or weeks<br \/>\nor months or years<br \/>\ntell me something<br \/>\nin return.<\/p>\n<p>Such is not thought of<br \/>\nin the land of lotus eaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I, poet If I stand by my fireplace before a gathering of friends and start to speak of life, the meaning of of religion, the possibility of of just about anything they will listen for a bit then speak themselves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/04\/29\/lotus-eaters-2\/\">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-564","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\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}