{"id":10987,"date":"2020-02-01T07:18:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10987"},"modified":"2020-01-21T23:21:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:21:23","slug":"like-the-ancient-mariner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10987","title":{"rendered":"Like the ancient mariner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like the ancient mariner, I hack at the neck of the albatross<\/p>\n<p>I must be free. It\u2019s all I can do to imagine<\/p>\n<p>its head stuck at the end of my stick<\/p>\n<p>held high above my head \u2013 with its swollen tongue<\/p>\n<p>protruding out its beak, its bulging eyes<\/p>\n<p>glaring straight ahead, piercing through me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2015\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the ancient mariner, I hack at the neck of the albatross I must be free. It\u2019s all I can do to imagine its head stuck at the end of my stick held high above my head \u2013 with its swollen tongue protruding out its beak, its bulging eyes glaring straight ahead, piercing through me&#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\/10987"}],"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=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10989,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions\/10989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}