{"id":12625,"date":"2017-03-22T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=12625"},"modified":"2017-03-22T13:18:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T17:18:25","slug":"the-event-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-event-by-barbara-f-lefcowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Event by Barbara F. Lefcowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the streamers are yellow<br \/>\nsome aqua, some candy-<br \/>\napple red<br \/>\nThe children have hung them<br \/>\nfrom ropes and wires<br \/>\nto make the event more festive<\/p>\n<p>Some they have coiled around trees<br \/>\nand telephone poles, tied into<br \/>\nlopsided<br \/>\nribbons and bows<\/p>\n<p>Soon the event will begin<\/p>\n<p>The children watch the streamers<br \/>\nbraid loosely, part and recombine,<br \/>\nthrust forward with the wind<br \/>\nas if they were flags or long tongues,<\/p>\n<p>At sunset they shimmer like silk<br \/>\nthough made from crepe paper<\/p>\n<p>Soon the event will begin<\/p>\n<p>If only the people would arrive,<br \/>\nthe baskets<br \/>\nof food,<br \/>\nthe magicians,<br \/>\nthe trumpets<br \/>\nthe cannons<br \/>\nSurely, the children agree, it<br \/>\nwill begin at any moment<br \/>\nAfter all that hard work<br \/>\nhow could the event<br \/>\nnot happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the streamers are yellow some aqua, some candy- apple red The children have hung them from ropes and wires to make the event more festive Some they have coiled around trees and telephone poles, tied into lopsided ribbons and bows Soon the event will begin The children watch the streamers braid loosely, part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-f-lefcowitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12626,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12625\/revisions\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}