{"id":669,"date":"2017-09-21T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thenightmail.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2017-09-21T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:35:42","slug":"the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"The River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the West flows a mighty river.\u00a0 Down mountains, over rocks and boulders, through trees it runs.\u00a0 Strong and unabated it slides toward civilization.\u00a0 No dam or levee can hold back the fierce flood.\u00a0 But it neither splashes nor sparkles in the sun.\u00a0 It\u2019s pools and eddies are dark.\u00a0 It reflects nothing and chokes all beings it overtakes.\u00a0 Dry and noisome, it is a river of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>The West is on fire.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image by Jeremy Thomas via Unsplash.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the West flows a mighty river.\u00a0 Down mountains, over rocks and boulders, through trees it runs.\u00a0 Strong and unabated it slides toward civilization.\u00a0 No dam or levee can hold back the fierce flood.\u00a0 But it neither splashes nor sparkles in the sun.\u00a0 It\u2019s pools and eddies are dark.\u00a0 It reflects nothing and chokes all&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/?p=669\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,13,36,14],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decay","tag-drabble","tag-flash-fiction","tag-forest-fires","tag-short-stories","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenightmail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}