{"id":874,"date":"2008-04-05T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T19:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=874"},"modified":"2008-04-05T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T19:16:11","slug":"spring-moult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/05\/spring-moult\/","title":{"rendered":"spring moult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some dress in layers for the cold:<br \/>\nsweat-absorbing long johns, tee shirt, two<br \/>\npairs of socks, thick pants, sweater, vest,<br \/>\njacket, gloves, mittens, toque, and boots.<\/p>\n<p>Some slide into a winter snowsuit<br \/>\nover regular clothes, add winter boots<br \/>\nand mittens, parka hood, and even ski mask.<\/p>\n<p>Little kids, who require adult assistance,<br \/>\n(or a teacher who dresses twenty-five),<br \/>\nthe boots, scarves, mittens and snowsuits<br \/>\ntake time and patience, especially when<br \/>\nthe kid has to pee just after the door opens.<\/p>\n<p>But when sap stirs, and blossoms sprout<br \/>\nespecially in latter spring days, then<br \/>\nwe learn which young thing sports a new<br \/>\nnavel ring, and in general, what pale fresh<br \/>\nradiant unfamiliar skin looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Legs, arms, muscles, cleavages appear, fresh<br \/>\nintrigues blossom, and the young<br \/>\nlearn a fresh respect for the back<br \/>\nseats of cars. Then everything opens up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dress in layers for the cold: sweat-absorbing long johns, tee shirt, two pairs of socks, thick pants, sweater, vest, jacket, gloves, mittens, toque, and boots. Some slide into a winter snowsuit over regular clothes, add winter boots and mittens, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/04\/05\/spring-moult\/\">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":[52,3,24,28],"tags":[1002,66,63,351],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-poetry","category-serial","category-snow","tag-family","tag-relationships","tag-seasons","tag-springtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}