{"id":366,"date":"2020-03-25T14:57:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:57:56","slug":"playing-with-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/playing-with-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Playing with\nZero<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the\nnumber zero:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>it signals\nthose who are missing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>holds the\nplace for other numbers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like all\nthose zeros after a one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It lets me\nknow that another day <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is coming\nwith its companions 1,2,3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>every tenth\nyear or century <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but falls\noff when time has passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are no\nmultiples of zero:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>zero times\nzero is zero <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and there is\nnothing left after<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>division,\none plus zero is always one <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and two is\nall that is left after subtraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes\nzero is hard to calculate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>like the\nquiet of the house when the dog is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Seven\nCircle Press\/Circle Show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dec.\n2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing with Zero I like the number zero: it signals those who are missing, holds the place for other numbers, like all those zeros after a one. It lets me know that another day is coming with its companions 1,2,3 every tenth year or century but falls off when time has passed. There are no&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/playing-with-zero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Playing with Zero<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}