{"id":581,"date":"2007-05-15T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/15\/purse\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:12:26","slug":"purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/15\/purse\/","title":{"rendered":"purse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this old guy<br \/>\n(couple years older than me<br \/>\nmy wife sez to say)<br \/>\nwalks in to play bridge<br \/>\nwearing blue jeans<br \/>\na nice vertical stripes<br \/>\non his matching shirt<br \/>\nand wide braces<br \/>\nwith tool designs<br \/>\nand he does all right.<\/p>\n<p>Couple times I sez:<br \/>\nI like your outfit;<br \/>\nyou really match.<br \/>\nAnd his wife<br \/>\nlaughs and sez:<br \/>\nI knew people<br \/>\nwould comment<br \/>\non those braces.<\/p>\n<p>So one the way out<br \/>\nI sees him standing<br \/>\nby the main door<br \/>\nin his matching outfit<br \/>\nwaiting for his wife<br \/>\nand he&#8217;s holding her purse.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s big and it&#8217;s white.<\/p>\n<p>I sez:<br \/>\nhow can you carry<br \/>\na white purse<br \/>\nwith\u00a0 that colour-<br \/>\ncoordinated outfit<br \/>\nand dandy suspenders?<br \/>\nAnd he grins sez,<br \/>\nshe&#8217;s gone back<br \/>\nfer her umbrella.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this old guy (couple years older than me my wife sez to say) walks in to play bridge wearing blue jeans a nice vertical stripes on his matching shirt and wide braces with tool designs and he does all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/05\/15\/purse\/\">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-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}