{"id":849,"date":"2011-11-07T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:14:51","slug":"concerning-keys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/archives\/849","title":{"rendered":"Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without even looking,<br \/>\nyou reach for the phone;<br \/>\nheld up to your ear,<br \/>\nyou wait for the tone.<\/p>\n<p>Notes bouncing forth,<br \/>\nas you dial away,<br \/>\non tiny square buttons,<br \/>\nwithout a delay.<\/p>\n<p>A reflex as ancient,<br \/>\nas river and tree,<br \/>\nbut in your great haste,<br \/>\nyou never will \u00a0see.<\/p>\n<p>The keys on a phone,<br \/>\nyou know where they be,<br \/>\nare not quite the same,<br \/>\nas on your PC.<\/p>\n<p>The keypad&#8217;s inverted,<br \/>\non calculators too.<br \/>\nGo check, if you doubt,<br \/>\nbut sadly, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>So now we must choose,<br \/>\nthe debate has begun.<br \/>\nDo we count down from nine,<br \/>\nor count up from one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without even looking, you reach for the phone; held up to your ear, you wait for the tone. Notes bouncing forth, as you dial away, on tiny square buttons, without a delay. A reflex as ancient, as river and tree, but in your great haste, you never will \u00a0see. The keys on a phone, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[555,556,355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duncanpriebe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}