{"id":3089,"date":"2011-10-09T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T22:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2017-08-01T22:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T22:36:59","slug":"victoria-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2011\/10\/09\/victoria-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. My mind was clear as I think back to a still morn in May.<\/li>\n
  2. A darkened morn it was to me, to others, a hol\u2019day.<\/li>\n
  3. The day was new and touched by dew. Not a sound upon the ear.<\/li>\n
  4. A mother\u2019s voice, a trembling hand awoke me to my fears;<\/li>\n
  5. Fears I had the day before, and e\u2019en throughout the week,<\/li>\n
  6. And now they woke me from my sleep and wouldn\u2019t let me speak.<\/li>\n
  7. Just thrice the bell had struck that morn, my worstest fears come true.<\/li>\n
  8. The love of two fin\u2019lly made three, but now the three was two.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My mind was clear as I think back to a still morn in May. A darkened morn it was to me, to others, a hol\u2019day. The day was new and touched by dew. Not a sound upon the ear. A mother\u2019s voice, a trembling hand awoke me to my fears; Fears I had the day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-NP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2941,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2011\/10\/09\/do-it-unto-the-least-of-these\/","url_meta":{"origin":3089,"position":0},"title":"Do It Unto the Least of These","author":"Kim Siever","date":"9 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"He clasped the coal, still glowing red, from off his wooden floor And placed it back within the flame. 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