{"id":621,"date":"2007-06-20T21:39:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T02:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/20\/watching-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T02:39:18","slug":"watching-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/20\/watching-2\/","title":{"rendered":"watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been watching<br \/>\nmyself for years:<br \/>\nmirrors in the morning<br \/>\nshop windows<br \/>\neyes of strangers<br \/>\nfaces of friends<br \/>\nsighs of aquaintances<br \/>\nmurmers of critics<br \/>\nfeints of opponents<br \/>\nletters from businesses<br \/>\nlovers&#8217; hesitations<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;ve been<br \/>\nmeasuring my ability<br \/>\nto blend into a crowd<br \/>\ngrab attention<br \/>\ntell a joke<br \/>\nconfess a sin<br \/>\nlead a revolution<br \/>\naccept failure<\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;ve decided<br \/>\nit&#8217;s okay to start<br \/>\nliving. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been watching myself for years: mirrors in the morning shop windows eyes of strangers faces of friends sighs of aquaintances murmers of critics feints of opponents letters from businesses lovers&#8217; hesitations and I&#8217;ve been measuring my ability to blend into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/06\/20\/watching-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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}