{"id":810,"date":"2008-02-11T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/11\/ghost-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:17:49","slug":"ghost-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/11\/ghost-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister&#8217;s voice on the phone<br \/>\njars me from my lethargy<br \/>\n<em>write to him<\/em><\/p>\n<p>years are never kind<br \/>\nto ancient tumors<br \/>\nbarely sentient in<br \/>\nabandoned tombs<\/p>\n<p>The construct<br \/>\nthat encased him<br \/>\nwas not<br \/>\nof his own making<br \/>\nhe inherited it<br \/>\nfrom our father<br \/>\nhis older brother<\/p>\n<p><em>write to him<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I did not<br \/>\ncould not<br \/>\nblame him<br \/>\nfor anything<br \/>\nbut deciding<br \/>\nI blamed him<\/p>\n<p>I cut into<br \/>\nthe rotting<br \/>\nwrought iron facade<br \/>\nthe mouldering stones<br \/>\nand found<br \/>\na garden<br \/>\nflourishing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister&#8217;s voice on the phone jars me from my lethargy write to him years are never kind to ancient tumors barely sentient in abandoned tombs The construct that encased him was not of his own making he inherited it from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/11\/ghost-2\/\">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":[997,307,66],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-aging","tag-parents-and-children","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}