{"id":791,"date":"2024-01-06T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T19:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=791"},"modified":"2024-01-06T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T19:35:18","slug":"the-poet-grows-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"The Poet Grows Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My big words desert me, and with them<br \/>\nmy thoughts, forever truncated by<br \/>\ndiversions shiny or even drab.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t mind so much losing track<br \/>\nof why I came into the kitchen<br \/>\nor how to integrate a gaussian,<br \/>\nbut there is still so much that needs saying<br \/>\nand I have to fall back on simple<br \/>\neveryday words.<\/p>\n<p>Driving home alone<br \/>\nI find myself screaming obscenities<br \/>\nat inane radio hosts and other drivers<br \/>\nbecause they can\u2019t hear me and<br \/>\nI have rage I need to express<br \/>\nsomehow.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps that\u2019s what needs saying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>January 6, 2024<\/em>: my birthday, Christmas Day in Russia, and the 3rd anniversary of the day democracy stumbled in the USA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My big words desert me, and with them my thoughts, forever truncated by diversions shiny or even drab. I don\u2019t mind so much losing track of why I came into the kitchen or how to integrate a gaussian, but there is still so much that needs saying and I have<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=791\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}