{"id":220,"date":"2012-02-08T04:17:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=220"},"modified":"2012-02-08T04:17:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T04:17:51","slug":"excavation-a-work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/excavation-a-work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"excavation (a work in progress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">i.<br \/>\nfound an arrow-<br \/>\nhead today; then<br \/>\na tent-ring; and then<br \/>\nunspeakable history, the three spinning<br \/>\nhands across the numbered face:<br \/>\nangles, yawning a<br \/>\nslow promise<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">ii.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">trash is the thing that<br \/>\nsurrounds quietly<br \/>\nwhen we sit occupied with<br \/>\nother things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">the silent stacks of<br \/>\nstained plates, watermarked<br \/>\nmugs, the signs<br \/>\nthat we walked here;<br \/>\nlived, even.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">iii.<br \/>\ncareful not<br \/>\nto disturb<br \/>\nwhat lies in earth<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">cracked screens, torn pages,<br \/>\nfreezers strapped shut by<br \/>\ndark, rich humus of<br \/>\nhistory, filled with<br \/>\ndesiccated turkeys, an<br \/>\nunwashed flask tucked behind<br \/>\nthe tv.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">these later people<br \/>\ncannot believe the way<br \/>\nwe lived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8211; Saskatoon,\u00a01997<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar i. found an arrow- head today; then a tent-ring; and then unspeakable history, the three spinning hands across the numbered face: angles, yawning a slow promise ii. trash is the thing that surrounds quietly when we sit occupied with other things. the silent stacks of stained plates, watermarked mugs, the signs that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-3y","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}