{"id":929,"date":"2008-05-21T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=929"},"modified":"2008-05-21T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T12:11:17","slug":"the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/21\/the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"the rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>anecdote: On the way to work one morning, I noted these optimistic words on the sign in front of a fried chicken place: &#8220;Today is the first day of the rest of your life.&#8221;   On the way home, I watched for the uplifting profundity on the reverse side, which turned out to be, &#8220;Wings, 12\u00a2&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Day, night, rise on wings of purest white<br \/>\nabove the arching quarrels of the times<br \/>\nand listen, aching, to the silent tunes<br \/>\nabove that giant sphere so perfect blue.<\/p>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n<p>There is an article on this post in my companion blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/platinum-river.blogspot.com\">Platinum River<\/a>\u2014it is the entry for May 21, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>anecdote: On the way to work one morning, I noted these optimistic words on the sign in front of a fried chicken place: &#8220;Today is the first day of the rest of your life.&#8221; On the way home, I watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/21\/the-rest\/\">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],"tags":[87,438,437,152,436,439],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-death","tag-music-of-the-spheres","tag-philosophy","tag-rhymed","tag-spirituality","tag-transcendentalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}