{"id":681,"date":"2007-09-29T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/29\/waiting-for-the-curtain\/"},"modified":"2007-10-20T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T11:52:16","slug":"waiting-for-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/29\/waiting-for-the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My little son and I were waiting for the show to start.<br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;ll bring down the lights soon,&#8221; I said.<br \/>\nThen I realized he was trembling, looking up at<br \/>\nthe great chandelier above us.<\/p>\n<p>Some explanation solved that one,<br \/>\nbut it made me realize that<br \/>\nwe take a lot for granted.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has told me, has explained<br \/>\nthe procedure for<br \/>\nbringing down the lights<br \/>\nthat I expect too soon.<\/p>\n<p>I look up at those lights in the night sky<br \/>\nand wish Father would<br \/>\ntake me by the hand and explain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little son and I were waiting for the show to start. &#8220;They&#8217;ll bring down the lights soon,&#8221; I said. Then I realized he was trembling, looking up at the great chandelier above us. Some explanation solved that one, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/09\/29\/waiting-for-the-curtain\/\">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":[997,79,78],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-childhood","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}