{"id":965,"date":"2008-06-11T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=965"},"modified":"2009-09-12T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T03:31:04","slug":"splashing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/11\/splashing-around\/","title":{"rendered":"splashing around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be concise:<\/p>\n<p>Living<br \/>\nin hospitals<br \/>\nis like<br \/>\ndiving<br \/>\nin swimming pools\u2014<br \/>\nthe exit can be<br \/>\nproblematic.<\/p>\n<p>Sign above urinal:<br \/>\n&#8220;Please do not throw<br \/>\nthings in urinal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did not see<br \/>\nthings in urinal<br \/>\nworth throwing.<br \/>\nNor would I climb<br \/>\ninto the urinal<br \/>\nto throw things.<\/p>\n<p>So why that sign?<br \/>\nSimpler:<br \/>\n&#8220;If yous throw stuff<br \/>\ninto this here urinal<br \/>\nyous gots to lick it out.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014even I understand that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be concise: Living in hospitals is like diving in swimming pools\u2014 the exit can be problematic. Sign above urinal: &#8220;Please do not throw things in urinal.&#8221; I did not see things in urinal worth throwing. Nor would I climb &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/11\/splashing-around\/\">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":[27,338,7,3],"tags":[990,461,57],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-poem","category-fun","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","tag-found-poem","tag-humor","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}