{"id":986,"date":"2008-06-26T18:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=986"},"modified":"2008-06-26T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:37:46","slug":"loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/26\/loss\/","title":{"rendered":"loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So often have we faced a loss:\r\n\tperhaps a favorite doll disappeared during a play date\r\n\ta wagon vanished overnight from the front yard\r\n\ta pair of glasses but not the book\r\n\ta wallet from a locked hotel room\r\n\tan unexpected fire that started in the kitchen\r\n\ta home expropriated for an expressway\r\n\ta life denied by bombs and firefights\r\n\r\nAs if it had been ripped away, each loss left a scar\r\n\ta belief broken\r\n\ta past denied\r\n\tjustice lost\r\n\tdistrust, cynicism, paranoia\r\n\r\nWhy are there so few thieves, so many victims?\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So often have we faced a loss: perhaps a favorite doll disappeared during a play date a wagon vanished overnight from the front yard a pair of glasses but not the book a wallet from a locked hotel room an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/26\/loss\/\">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":[145],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}