{"id":659,"date":"2007-09-26T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T03:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/26\/waiting-at-schnitzels\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T03:34:50","slug":"waiting-at-schnitzels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/26\/waiting-at-schnitzels\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting at Schnitzels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same group more or less was sitting eating:<br \/>\nthe quartet, <em>Play It Again! <\/em>and some Cornwall guys;<br \/>\ngoulash and potato salad were worth repeating,<br \/>\nand so were the pizza and lamb we tried on for size.<\/p>\n<p>And after the dinner, the quartet again sang sweetly,<br \/>\nand our waitress and several customers came around;<br \/>\nand Jim&#8217;s perfect voice changed the meaning of our meeting<br \/>\nto something more complex than a perfect sound.<\/p>\n<p>For I was sitting listening to my pulse<br \/>\nand thinking of the CAT scan coming up;<br \/>\nthe guy with the light has told me they found a swelling:<br \/>\nnear my liver, a lymph node has given a strange result.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m asking again; any answer will be enough:<br \/>\nexcept for the song, there&#8217;s no answer that anyone&#8217;s telling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same group more or less was sitting eating: the quartet, Play It Again! and some Cornwall guys; goulash and potato salad were worth repeating, and so were the pizza and lamb we tried on for size. And after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/26\/waiting-at-schnitzels\/\">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":[45,41,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-barbershop-singing","category-poetry","category-sonnets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}