{"id":823,"date":"2008-02-24T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T15:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/24\/tires\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T15:15:48","slug":"tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/24\/tires\/","title":{"rendered":"tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were standing<br \/>\nunder my dripping car<br \/>\nHe shook his consternation<br \/>\n<em> won&#8217;t last long<\/em><br \/>\nhe said<br \/>\nincreasing my shaken consternation<br \/>\n<em> tread&#8217;s almost a gonner<br \/>\n<\/em>he said<br \/>\n<em> see here?<\/em><br \/>\nhe said<\/p>\n<p>I looked with consternation<br \/>\nand no comprehension<br \/>\nbut wisely<br \/>\nas if I agreed<br \/>\n<em> ah yes<br \/>\n<\/em>I said<br \/>\n<em> rear end&#8217;ll take off on you<\/em><br \/>\n<em>you&#8217;ll be driving along confident<br \/>\nand you&#8217;ll end up in a ditch<br \/>\n<\/em>he said<\/p>\n<p>I understood such endings<br \/>\nand resolved<br \/>\nto replace the wet dripping tires<br \/>\nwith two shiny new sort of porcupiney<br \/>\nones with those little nubs all over the treads<\/p>\n<p><em>put them on the front<\/em><br \/>\nhe said<br \/>\n<em>put the old front ones on back here<br \/>\n<\/em>he said<em><br \/>\nsafer<br \/>\n<\/em>he said<\/p>\n<p>I shivered<br \/>\nmuch like a porcupine<br \/>\nbut not so knowledgeably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were standing under my dripping car He shook his consternation won&#8217;t last long he said increasing my shaken consternation tread&#8217;s almost a gonner he said see here? he said I looked with consternation and no comprehension but wisely as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/24\/tires\/\">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":[52,3,24],"tags":[335,336,334],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-serial","tag-cars","tag-consultation","tag-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}