{"id":10977,"date":"2020-01-29T06:52:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10977"},"modified":"2020-01-21T23:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:30:33","slug":"a-spray-of-anxiousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10977","title":{"rendered":"a spray of anxiousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each day breaks, as a wave would<\/p>\n<p>Crashing into my senses and awakening me to<\/p>\n<p>my bedrock of nonsense and idleness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I awake with a spray of anxiousness.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine gull cries to herald the morning<\/p>\n<p>(another wave crashes, then it lapses away without notice)<\/p>\n<p>I stand dumbfounded, uncertain, before another day<\/p>\n<p>I search for a fresh breeze and wipe a salty sting from my brow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>scene after scene, incident after incident,<\/p>\n<p>wave after wave, each with a potential to<\/p>\n<p>crash the shallow meaninglessness I wade in \u2013<\/p>\n<p>and provide real hope of achieving,<\/p>\n<p>of completing one\u2019s self<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Chris George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From the collection entitled \u201cAt 42\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>June 2004<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each day breaks, as a wave would Crashing into my senses and awakening me to my bedrock of nonsense and idleness. &nbsp; I awake with a spray of anxiousness. I imagine gull cries to herald the morning (another wave crashes, then it lapses away without notice) I stand dumbfounded, uncertain, before another day I search&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10977\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}