{"id":750,"date":"2007-12-15T23:38:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T04:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/12\/15\/see-pap\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T05:22:33","slug":"see-pap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/12\/15\/see-pap\/","title":{"rendered":"See Pap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pap sleeps with his mouth and nose<br \/>\nencased in a triangularish plastic mask<br \/>\nthat pushes air pressure into his lungs<br \/>\nto keep his body alive longer.<\/p>\n<p>Darth Vader springs to mind<br \/>\nor Lloyd Bridges under the sea<br \/>\nor the hatchling from <em>Alien<\/em><br \/>\nor somebody in a war zone.<\/p>\n<p>The dread with which he approaches<br \/>\nthe mechanical squid, as he calls it,<br \/>\nconjures up illusions of leeches<br \/>\nsquiggling down into his throat,<\/p>\n<p>drowning in a kindly dungeon<br \/>\nunder the supervision of good cop\u2014<br \/>\nwhat is the difference<br \/>\nbetween kink and medicine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pap sleeps with his mouth and nose encased in a triangularish plastic mask that pushes air pressure into his lungs to keep his body alive longer. Darth Vader springs to mind or Lloyd Bridges under the sea or the hatchling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/12\/15\/see-pap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}