{"id":665,"date":"2007-10-14T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/19\/conversation\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T07:53:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:53:07","slug":"conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/14\/conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>The only ones who knew<br \/>\nwere either dead or Disraeli<br \/>\n\u2014Alan at dinner<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I held this observation through dinner<br \/>\nlike a hobo filching bread from a soup kitchen.<br \/>\nI chortled to myself as the brioche disappeared<br \/>\nthrough the rest of the conversation<br \/>\nfollowed by metropolitan discussions of<br \/>\neducation, theatre, politics and<br \/>\nfamous friends and<br \/>\nsteamed rice, string beans and<br \/>\ntender breast of chicken in a delicious perfect sauce<br \/>\nthat rambled through the rice and over the beans<br \/>\nlike tour guides thinking of the Piazza Americana<br \/>\nfrom beneath the blazing florets of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<p>I complimented our host before dessert<br \/>\nand being the first person I\u2019d ever heard<br \/>\nuse Disraeli as an adjective<\/p>\n<p>We devoured his home made pumpkin pie<br \/>\nin studiously devout silence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only ones who knew were either dead or Disraeli \u2014Alan at dinner I held this observation through dinner like a hobo filching bread from a soup kitchen. I chortled to myself as the brioche disappeared through the rest of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/14\/conversation\/\">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":[27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-poem","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","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=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}