{"id":843,"date":"2008-03-09T06:58:29","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T11:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/09\/reluctant-clocks\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T06:58:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T11:58:29","slug":"reluctant-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/09\/reluctant-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"reluctant clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>gremlins have dropped by<br \/>\nour snowbound house<br \/>\ntaking a mad March<br \/>\nbreak from playing<br \/>\nhavoc with aircraft<br \/>\nand fiddled with our clocks<\/p>\n<p>quite a picture<br \/>\nmad March gremlins<br \/>\nusing our clocks<br \/>\nfor violins<br \/>\nin some zany orchestra<br \/>\nup in the belfry<br \/>\nwith the bats<\/p>\n<p>but heck<br \/>\nwhen time came<br \/>\nfor us to<br \/>\nspring ahead<br \/>\nfor daylight saving<\/p>\n<p>our digital bedroom clocks<br \/>\nrefused such frivolity<br \/>\nwith a hidden store<br \/>\nof Luddite insistence<br \/>\nand defied all attempts<br \/>\nto influence<br \/>\ntheir staid old standard time<\/p>\n<p>like a chain-anchored<br \/>\nsteel pocket watch<br \/>\nin the vest pocket<br \/>\nof a solemn<br \/>\ntrain conductor<br \/>\nthey espouse the old<\/p>\n<p>so it&#8217;s<br \/>\ndown with the<br \/>\nnew-fangled atomic<br \/>\nand up with the<br \/>\nsteam-powered&#151;no&#038;#151<br \/>\nspring powered<br \/>\nhand-wound<br \/>\nreliable old<br \/>\nindependent time<\/p>\n<p>by gosh and by golly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gremlins have dropped by our snowbound house taking a mad March break from playing havoc with aircraft and fiddled with our clocks quite a picture mad March gremlins using our clocks for violins in some zany orchestra up in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/03\/09\/reluctant-clocks\/\">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":[5,52,7,3,24],"tags":[357,63,991],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boppin","category-lotus-eaters","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-serial","tag-old-fashioned","tag-seasons","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}