{"id":666,"date":"2007-10-13T06:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/13\/gordian-knots\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T07:56:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T12:56:04","slug":"gordian-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/13\/gordian-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordian knots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am becoming the guy<br \/>\nI used to dread standing behind<br \/>\nat the supermarket cash<br \/>\nthe guy whose arthritic<br \/>\nfingers and swollen brain<br \/>\ncouldn\u2019t untangle the knots<br \/>\nof coins in his little change pouch<br \/>\nto fetch thirty-eight cents<br \/>\nwhile trying to flirt with<br \/>\nthe gum-chewing cashier<\/p>\n<p>I am also becoming one of<br \/>\nthe grey-haired guys<br \/>\nwho cuddle up to stare forever at<br \/>\na closeup of the urinal wall<br \/>\nduring intermission<br \/>\nwhile the knots in their groins<br \/>\ntakes its own sweet time unraveling<br \/>\nin front of younger guys who<br \/>\nused to be me and could<br \/>\ntie their own quickly accessible<br \/>\nknots for the occasion<\/p>\n<p>I am also one of the old<br \/>\nfools who can no longer<br \/>\nuntangle the twisted map<br \/>\nof my brain in time to recall what\u2019s next . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am becoming the guy I used to dread standing behind at the supermarket cash the guy whose arthritic fingers and swollen brain couldn\u2019t untangle the knots of coins in his little change pouch to fetch thirty-eight cents while trying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/10\/13\/gordian-knots\/\">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":[997,57],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}