{"id":835,"date":"2008-02-29T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/29\/footprints\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T15:23:32","slug":"footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/29\/footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>[Sorry about this; I have a bee in my bonnet about senseless pollution and disposable goods.] <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>used to like the scent<br \/>\nof gasoline<br \/>\non a warm summer day<br \/>\nwatch it slosh around<br \/>\nas the guy rhythmically<br \/>\npumped it up<br \/>\ninto the glass cylinder<br \/>\nI&#8217;d pull on a stalk of timothy<br \/>\nAugust grasshoppers<br \/>\nsawing off a long hot afternoon<br \/>\nof childhood<\/p>\n<p>no more<\/p>\n<p>human rhythm gone<br \/>\nmachines pump fuel<br \/>\ninvisible impersonal<br \/>\ndigits click off the price<br \/>\nand<br \/>\ncost is machines<br \/>\nspewing toxins for<br \/>\non-time delivery<br \/>\nof off-shore disposable<br \/>\ntoxic oil-derived plastics<br \/>\nand machines<br \/>\nspewing toxins for<br \/>\nthe selfish convenience of<br \/>\ndrive-thru pickup of<br \/>\nheart-stopping<br \/>\nfast foods<br \/>\nand machines<br \/>\nspewing toxins for<br \/>\nthe inconceivable<br \/>\nindulgence of<br \/>\nindividual commuting<br \/>\nthrough stressful<br \/>\nhours of grid-lock<\/p>\n<p>footprints of our machines<br \/>\nare our footprints<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Sorry about this; I have a bee in my bonnet about senseless pollution and disposable goods.] used to like the scent of gasoline on a warm summer day watch it slosh around as the guy rhythmically pumped it up into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/02\/29\/footprints\/\">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":[52,3,17,24],"tags":[343,201,326],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-screeds","category-serial","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","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=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}