{"id":563,"date":"2011-04-25T17:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=563"},"modified":"2011-04-25T17:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T21:51:12","slug":"for-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=563","title":{"rendered":"For National Poetry Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As National Poetry Month comes to a close, it&#8217;s been great to see all the events around town.\u00c2\u00a0 This does bring to mind a less than satisfying literary experience that took place long ago and far away, though I did get this little poem out of it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Famous Poet Workshop, Saturday 1-4 pm, $150<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caged sentiments, re-engineered memories,<br \/>\nand most of all, a way with words\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s make a poem, shall we?<br \/>\nA poignant, patchwork little ditty,<br \/>\na driven moment of self-examination<br \/>\nor typing, though some can&#8217;t write<br \/>\nwithout just the right pen or sedative.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t let that slow you down.  The lines<br \/>\nwill find a way through the sediment<br \/>\nof your precious lives, and words will come<br \/>\nlike something something you can&#8217;t\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<br \/>\nor at least don&#8217;t care\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto explain.<br \/>\nNever hang around to explain, and<br \/>\neat the rest of those donuts or else<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to take them home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As National Poetry Month comes to a close, it&#8217;s been great to see all the events around town.\u00c2\u00a0 This does bring to mind a less than satisfying literary experience that took place long ago and far away, though I did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}