{"id":902,"date":"2006-11-08T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T02:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/2001\/10-24-01\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T02:03:13","slug":"10-24-01","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=902","title":{"rendered":"10-24-01"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=902\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Osaka<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in traffic<br \/>\nSlow enough that missing details<br \/>\nFrom previous days can be seen<\/p>\n<p>What an architect was thinking<\/p>\n<p>And the back of a post-it note<br \/>\nIn a 16th story office window<\/p>\n<p>A lost wallet and its contents<br \/>\nCast like bread for ducks<br \/>\nOn a quiet pond<br \/>\nUnceremoniously spread on the<br \/>\nShoulder of a freeway off ramp<br \/>\nHe must wonder where it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More blue tarps than before<br \/>\nThe quiet sections of the park<br \/>\nHundreds of years and the poor<br \/>\nStill live on the estate grounds<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you can see both faces<br \/>\nBut not often<\/p>\n<p>Maybe when the men fish<br \/>\nThe ritual and the escape<br \/>\nA place outside where no one<br \/>\nAsks anything of you<br \/>\nNot even the absent fish.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic begins to clear<br \/>\nThe bus picks up speed<br \/>\nLife resumes and breakneck speed<br \/>\nAnd the details are that much harder to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osaka Sitting in traffic Slow enough that missing details From previous days can be seen What an architect was thinking And the back of a post-it note In a 16th story office window A lost wallet and its contents Cast like bread for ducks On a quiet pond Unceremoniously spread on the Shoulder of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":878,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/902\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}