{"id":988,"date":"2008-06-28T23:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T03:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=988"},"modified":"2008-06-28T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T03:36:16","slug":"quivering-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/28\/quivering-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Quivering in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\r\nWe can sympathize\r\nwith the tribes.\r\n\r\nWhen the government came in\r\n\tdammed the river\r\n\tfor a power plant\r\n\tand re-routed the shipping channel\r\n\t\taway from us\r\n\t\ttook homes, businesses\r\n\t\tdrydock jobs\r\n\t\tshipping jobs\r\n\t\teven graveyards\r\n\t\tto make it work,\r\nwe said little\r\nand\r\n\tamazed by\r\n\t\tthe huge bridge\r\n\t\tthe office building\r\n\t\tthe promises\r\nwe did little\r\nlet the long term go\r\nlet them have a free ride\r\nuntil it was over\r\nand the construction boom left.\r\n\r\nSounds familiar and dark.\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>[print_link]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can sympathize with the tribes. When the government came in dammed the river for a power plant and re-routed the shipping channel away from us took homes, businesses drydock jobs shipping jobs even graveyards to make it work, we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2008\/06\/28\/quivering-in-the-dark\/\">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":[3,17],"tags":[526,525,121,524],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-screeds","tag-canadian-politics","tag-economics","tag-st-lawrence-river","tag-st-lawrence-seaway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}