{"id":945,"date":"2008-05-29T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=945"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:55:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T11:55:19","slug":"tree-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/29\/tree-games\/","title":{"rendered":"tree games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning<br \/>\nas I&#8217;m shaving<br \/>\non a bright and<br \/>\nwindy day<br \/>\nI glimpse something<br \/>\nquickly passing<br \/>\nby the window<br \/>\n\u2014second floor?<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could be<br \/>\nnear that window<br \/>\nAre my eyes<br \/>\ndeceiving me?<br \/>\nCould it be<br \/>\na bird in passing?<br \/>\nIt repeats:<br \/>\nthat cannot be.<\/p>\n<p>Like an arm<br \/>\nI see it flying<br \/>\ncast a shadow<br \/>\non the wall<br \/>\nand my heart<br \/>\nis fairly pounding<br \/>\nhold the sink<br \/>\nor else I fall.<\/p>\n<p>Then of course<br \/>\nthe comprehension:<br \/>\nit is just a<br \/>\nsimple branch<br \/>\nthat I saw<br \/>\nperipherally;<br \/>\ngetting old:<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t take a chance.<\/p>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning as I&#8217;m shaving on a bright and windy day I glimpse something quickly passing by the window \u2014second floor? Nothing could be near that window Are my eyes deceiving me? Could it be a bird in passing? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/05\/29\/tree-games\/\">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],"tags":[471,473,152,472],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-poetry","tag-being-startled","tag-garrison-mentality","tag-rhymed","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","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=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}