{"id":71,"date":"2004-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/?p=71"},"modified":"2012-02-10T15:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T15:50:57","slug":"pooja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/2004\/03\/pooja\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Gord Sellar<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The day&#8217;s weight sank it into its detritus,<br \/>\ndust-drenched hair, the leftover shakes<br \/>\nand groaning belly soothed by sweet, cool lemonade;<br \/>\nagainst the dingy whisper of strange bedsheets,<br \/>\nexhaustion a decrescendo planed into longing<br \/>\nas the cusp of sleep slips closer and closer,<br \/>\nmy thumb, tip to the middle of palm, smoothing<br \/>\nsoft across forehead, exactly just like this;<br \/>\nthe swirling edge of a half-memory diluted<br \/>\ninto weariness, the French-tinged voices returning<br \/>\nfrom Laure and J\u00e9rome, deep in that wintry night<br \/>\nof snow and apple wine and tales of <em>poojas<\/em><br \/>\nin Nepal, the scent of a sweet pink paste<br \/>\nfrom the crushed bodies of hundreds of flowers<br \/>\nnever seen by them, spread from cheek to forehead<br \/>\nand back; a safety fixed on the fate of travelers,<br \/>\nbeloved wanderers at the doorway out. And strange,<br \/>\nin my wandering, I dream of anointing you,<br \/>\nthe dinge of this upper room suddenly flooded<br \/>\nwith the brilliant sweet aroma of these blooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>&#8212; Agra, winter 2004<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Gord Sellar The day&#8217;s weight sank it into its detritus, dust-drenched hair, the leftover shakes and groaning belly soothed by sweet, cool lemonade; against the dingy whisper of strange bedsheets, exhaustion a decrescendo planed into longing as the cusp of sleep slips closer and closer, my thumb, tip to the middle of palm, smoothing [&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-71","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\/s6xIep-pooja","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordsellar.com\/texts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}