{"id":775,"date":"2008-01-09T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T04:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/09\/gripped\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T05:14:44","slug":"gripped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/09\/gripped\/","title":{"rendered":"gripped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Master of the Universe:<\/p>\n<p>it has been brought to my attention<br \/>\nby certain aches and pains and<br \/>\npersonal plumbing problems<br \/>\nthat I have been granted<br \/>\nresponsibility for Your revenge on<br \/>\nhumanity regarding the misuse of<br \/>\nthis planet and possibly<br \/>\nthis solar system.<\/p>\n<p>I wish to protest<br \/>\nthat I know several people<br \/>\nwho have the time<br \/>\nand even the inclination<br \/>\nto suffer immensely<br \/>\nand with great dramatic skill<br \/>\nsuch as I have neither the training<br \/>\nnor the inclination to undertake.<\/p>\n<p>I would be most grateful<br \/>\nif You would find it in Your capacity<br \/>\nas a wise and all-knowing Being<br \/>\nto shift the burden of the back ache<br \/>\nsore joints, head ache, sore eyes<br \/>\nand the runny nose<br \/>\nto those whose sordid deflation<br \/>\nwould be more pleasing to You<br \/>\nthan I, who tend to ignore it<br \/>\nmost of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<br \/>\nand somewhat ungratefully, I know,<br \/>\nthe poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Master of the Universe: it has been brought to my attention by certain aches and pains and personal plumbing problems that I have been granted responsibility for Your revenge on humanity regarding the misuse of this planet and possibly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/01\/09\/gripped\/\">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":[53,3],"tags":[257,201],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illness","category-poetry","tag-aches-and-pains","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}