{"id":610,"date":"2007-06-09T22:44:51","date_gmt":"2007-06-10T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/09\/backing-in\/"},"modified":"2007-06-09T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-10T03:44:51","slug":"backing-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/09\/backing-in\/","title":{"rendered":"backing in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>pushing the trailer backwards<br \/>\nthe fulcrum a small steel ball<br \/>\nthat transmits actions<br \/>\nthe front wheels shimmy left<br \/>\nthe front end swings right<br \/>\nthe hitch pivots left<br \/>\nthe trailer back swings right<br \/>\nmy head swivels like an owl&#8217;s<br \/>\nor Linda Blair&#8217;s stand-in dummy&#8217;s<br \/>\nand by now I sound like her too<\/p>\n<p>in the mirror left is right<br \/>\nand visa-versa or whatever<br \/>\nit must become a habit grasshopper<br \/>\nthinking is the enemy<br \/>\nturn left to go right<br \/>\ndo not think but do<br \/>\nthis is impossible amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pushing the trailer backwards the fulcrum a small steel ball that transmits actions the front wheels shimmy left the front end swings right the hitch pivots left the trailer back swings right my head swivels like an owl&#8217;s or Linda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/09\/backing-in\/\">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-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}