{"id":1807,"date":"2025-03-15T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2025-03-15T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:31:27","slug":"for-want-of-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"For Want of a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By CJ Muchhala<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>If<\/em>, the quietest, most inconsequential <br>of words, if size <br>and sound matter. So fraught<br>with meaning: <br>\t<em>If the boat doesn\u2019t sink\u2026<br>\tIf the glove fits\u2026<\/em><br>encompassing future and past in<br>two thin, angular letters <br>and one innocuous sound:<br>\t<em>If you loved me\u2026<br>\tIf she recovers\u2026<\/em><br>signaling the most improbable<br>and probable of outcomes,<br>one wonders the word doesn\u2019t <br>split under the weight, the <em>i <\/em> falling<br>leftward, the  <em>f<\/em>  to the right, and<br>if <br>that were to happen, one could<br>lose the ability to hedge.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If, the quietest, most inconsequential<br \/>\nof words, if size \/ and sound matter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-136","category-march-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}