{"id":640,"date":"2007-09-08T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/08\/shaving-elephants\/"},"modified":"2007-09-08T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T19:34:13","slug":"shaving-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/08\/shaving-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"shaving elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in the wild<br \/>\nthey rub<br \/>\nagainst trees and rocks<\/p>\n<p>in captivity<br \/>\nwe rub them with gasoline<br \/>\nsinge off their beards<br \/>\nwith blow torches<\/p>\n<p>we like our hirsute<br \/>\nhairless<br \/>\nas those who have waxed or shaved or otherwise depilated<br \/>\nsensitive areas<br \/>\ncan attest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in the wild they rub against trees and rocks in captivity we rub them with gasoline singe off their beards with blow torches we like our hirsute hairless as those who have waxed or shaved or otherwise depilated sensitive areas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/08\/shaving-elephants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","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=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}