{"id":912,"date":"2008-05-07T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T12:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=912"},"modified":"2008-05-07T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T12:23:04","slug":"turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/07\/turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We duck beneath a helicopter blade rotation:<br \/>\nthat makes some sense, although it&#8217;s slicing<br \/>\nwell above our heads. Think of the headsman&#8217;s<br \/>\naxe taking a swing: you feel the little nick as he<br \/>\nadjusts, the way you would measure chopping<br \/>\nkindling for the stove, so for a head.<\/p>\n<p>Then when the great headsman of the world<br \/>\ncreates that little nick o&#8217; the neck, why<br \/>\ndo we ignore the long supply lines for our<br \/>\nfood and other stuff that comes around<br \/>\nthe great curve the earth and will starve us<br \/>\nwhen the great swing of the blade cuts off<br \/>\nall ways of bringing it dependent on the oil<br \/>\nso fast dwindling? Or will we turtles<br \/>\nduck in time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We duck beneath a helicopter blade rotation: that makes some sense, although it&#8217;s slicing well above our heads. Think of the headsman&#8217;s axe taking a swing: you feel the little nick as he adjusts, the way you would measure chopping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/07\/turtles\/\">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":[3,17],"tags":[343,421],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-screeds","tag-environment","tag-social-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}