{"id":873,"date":"2008-04-04T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=873"},"modified":"2008-04-04T12:43:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T16:43:11","slug":"edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/04\/edge\/","title":{"rendered":"edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>at a certain age<br \/>\nhe found vertigo<br \/>\nsucking his imagination<br \/>\nover the twelfth floor balcony rail<br \/>\nsiren gravity pleaded<br \/>\nfrom the edges of the planet<br \/>\nhorizons begged voluptuous<br \/>\nclawed into the ledges of sleep<br \/>\nhe sat on the edge of the bed<br \/>\ncold-sweating the plunge<br \/>\nto the bedroom floor<\/p>\n<p>now spring beckons<br \/>\nlike a voice in a well<br \/>\ncalling him on the icy ledge<br \/>\nof summer<br \/>\nreturning birds<br \/>\nin the necrotic winter wilderness<br \/>\nscream of heat<br \/>\nand birth<br \/>\nand he wants<br \/>\nto yield<br \/>\nto hope<br \/>\nto jump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at a certain age he found vertigo sucking his imagination over the twelfth floor balcony rail siren gravity pleaded from the edges of the planet horizons begged voluptuous clawed into the ledges of sleep he sat on the edge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/04\/edge\/\">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":[45,3,42,28],"tags":[388,107,351,389],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","category-scapes","category-snow","tag-phobias","tag-seasonal","tag-springtime","tag-vertigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}