{"id":338,"date":"2012-02-11T02:16:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-02-11T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:16:52","slug":"in-the-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2012\/02\/in-the-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Mood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">wishbone in hand, puzzle<br \/>\nworld around my head, it comes<br \/>\nand goes, this vertigo that tells me<br \/>\nI am in a strange place, words<br \/>\nthat make no sense make sense<br \/>\nto me suddenly, <em>let\u2019s go <\/em>and<br \/>\n<em>no thank you <\/em>and <em>two beer <\/em><br \/>\n<em>please<\/em>. a crazy man tells me fumbling<br \/>\n<em>you are saxophone hero <\/em>for his<br \/>\ncountry, and I think he is a member<br \/>\nof an indigenous clade of gangster,<br \/>\nand he gives me mekju which is beer<br \/>\nin his bar between songs, offers of<br \/>\nchicken. it is something about a white<br \/>\nface in this crowd, they don\u2019t hear<br \/>\nsour notes so sour, and this makes my<br \/>\nedges squirm, and my muscles crouch.<br \/>\nthere is something wrong with this picture,<br \/>\nbut nothing I can really do besides<br \/>\nput the beer down and grab my horn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>&#8212; Iksan, South Korea, 2002<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, every word of it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gordsellar\/696211525\/\" title=\"ye olde jazz posse by mrgord, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1303\/696211525_9cb559ee0d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" alt=\"ye olde jazz posse\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar wishbone in hand, puzzle world around my head, it comes and goes, this vertigo that tells me I am in a strange place, words that make no sense make sense to me suddenly, let\u2019s go and no thank you and two beer please. a crazy man tells me fumbling you are saxophone [&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":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems-kr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xIep-5s","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}