{"id":983,"date":"2008-06-23T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=983"},"modified":"2008-06-23T18:16:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T22:16:51","slug":"beige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/23\/beige\/","title":{"rendered":"beige"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\r\nUncomfortable\r\n\r\n\tListen to a joke in Czech\r\n\t\tor Serb\r\n\t\tand wonder\r\n\t\tif you should laugh\r\n\t\tat the end\r\n\t\tor ruin the mood\r\n\r\n\tWalk alone into\r\n\t\ta party of couples\r\n\t\tand stay alone\r\n\t\tsemi drunk\r\n\t\tall night\r\n\r\n\tSit in a loud party\r\n\t\tunable to hear\r\n\t\tanything but noise\r\n\t\tand the calendar flipping\r\n\r\n\tListen to a friend\r\n\t\traving about Wal-Mart\r\n\t\tor some other institution\r\n\t\tyou think is seditious\r\n\t\tand say nothing\r\n\r\n\tListen to a Baptist\r\n\t\tJihadist\r\n\t\ttalk about\r\n\t\tfamily values\r\n\t\tand nod slowly\r\n\t\twhile keeping\r\n\t\ta fixed smile\r\n\r\n\tExpress your views\r\n\t\tto a lamp post\r\n\t\twhile waiting\r\n\t\tfor the bus home\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncomfortable Listen to a joke in Czech or Serb and wonder if you should laugh at the end or ruin the mood Walk alone into a party of couples and stay alone semi drunk all night Sit in a loud &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/23\/beige\/\">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":[52,7,3,44,24],"tags":[145,147],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus-eaters","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-poetry","category-political-asides","category-serial","tag-social-commentary","tag-social-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","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=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}