{"id":275,"date":"2012-02-10T09:19:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=275"},"modified":"2012-02-10T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T09:19:42","slug":"christmas-new-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/christmas-new-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, New Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The cold of winter is thick even here,<br \/>\nspread as if by a knife; the land is dry,<br \/>\nhungry, and teenagers don&#8217;t notice. They<br \/>\nstride in toques and blues jeans, speaking<br \/>\nAmericanese to one another through the blurring<br \/>\ncavatinas of their accents. I&#8217;m not sure what it<br \/>\nmeans to see this on Christmas Day, as<br \/>\nopposed to any other day of the year.<br \/>\nA little girl clutches blonde Barbie dolls<br \/>\nin their full pink regalia, one in each little<br \/>\nfist, and I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing anyone<br \/>\nas happy as this kid with the booty of Christmas,<br \/>\nnot in the epic flashing of nightclub lights,<br \/>\nnot on television, not even in the ocean of<br \/>\nthe internet, not even on magazine covers,<br \/>\nand I am not sure what to make of the grin.<br \/>\nThe child is not alone in loving plastic tresses,<br \/>\nin staring gleeful at strange girls in pink dresses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; 2003, New Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar The cold of winter is thick even here, spread as if by a knife; the land is dry, hungry, and teenagers don&#8217;t notice. They stride in toques and blues jeans, speaking Americanese to one another through the blurring cavatinas of their accents. I&#8217;m not sure what it means to see this on [&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":[16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-of-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-4r","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","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=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}