{"id":824,"date":"2008-03-04T19:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/04\/i-would\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T19:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T00:07:07","slug":"i-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/04\/i-would\/","title":{"rendered":"I would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would not trust a wolverine<br \/>\nno matter how he loved me;<br \/>\nI would trust  a wolverine<br \/>\nto tear my throat at his whim.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust a seller<br \/>\nwho loved me too much;<br \/>\nI would trust a seller<br \/>\nto know what he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust booze<br \/>\nto solve what ails me:<br \/>\nI would trust booze<br \/>\nto cause and cauterize my wounds.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust a doctor<br \/>\nto know my suffering;<br \/>\nI would trust a doctor<br \/>\nto know my category.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust snow<br \/>\nto stay in summer;<br \/>\nI would trust snowflakes<br \/>\nto melt into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust a politician<br \/>\nto keep a promise;<br \/>\nI would trust a promise<br \/>\nto keep disappearing magically.<\/p>\n<p>I would not trust lightning<br \/>\nto disobey all laws;<br \/>\nI would trust lightning<br \/>\nto be primal and majestic.<\/p>\n<p>I would trust you<br \/>\nto know who this:<br \/>\nno matter what, trust this:<br \/>\nI am I and so are you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would not trust a wolverine no matter how he loved me; I would trust a wolverine to tear my throat at his whim. I would not trust a seller who loved me too much; I would trust a seller &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/04\/i-would\/\">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":[348,349,350],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-musing","tag-quatrains","tag-unrhymed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}