{"id":1222,"date":"2012-03-12T23:54:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1222"},"modified":"2012-03-12T23:59:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:59:53","slug":"having-your-cake-not-eating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1222","title":{"rendered":"having your cake, not eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>an adelaide western suburbs sunday school memory<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the birthday cake was<\/p>\n<p>a round piece of jarrah<\/p>\n<p>decorated with petrified<\/p>\n<p>pale blue plastic icing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>every year they\u2019d light candles<\/p>\n<p>you\u2019d blow them out<\/p>\n<p>and they\u2019d put it back in the tall cupboard<\/p>\n<p>until next week\u2019s birthday Harvest<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>once i prayed it would<\/p>\n<p>magically transubstantiate into real cake<\/p>\n<p>and we could all have a slice.<\/p>\n<p>but it remained wood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>like a graven image.<\/p>\n<p>superficial, no real meaning<\/p>\n<p>like the wooden heart of<\/p>\n<p>elvis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>or jesus saying<\/p>\n<p>i am the door<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 rob walker<\/p>\n<p>(from <em>micromacro<\/em>, Seaview Press, Sept, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-174-008-415-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; an adelaide western suburbs sunday school memory &nbsp; &nbsp; the birthday cake was a round piece of jarrah decorated with petrified pale blue plastic icing &nbsp; &nbsp; every year they\u2019d light candles you\u2019d blow them out and they\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?page_id=1222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222\/revisions\/1231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}