{"id":4946,"date":"2009-03-07T17:19:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2009-03-07T17:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T22:19:28","slug":"just-for-recordkeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4946","title":{"rendered":"Just for recordkeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this little poem a couple of months ago in <a href=\"http:\/\/ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/because_its_friday_15.php#comment-1262941\">a thread about the poem read at Obama's inauguration<\/a>. I'm putting it here so I can find it if I ever want to read it again. <\/p>\n<p>Feel free to ignore this post.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>i was convinced, nearly, by her reading<br \/>\nthat verse so free has no business<br \/>\nbeing read aloud. being considered poetry.<\/p>\n<p>only she can, didn't, say why<br \/>\nthe text she read was not prose,<br \/>\nread haltingly with discordant accents.<\/p>\n<p>if i sound like prose<br \/>\nplayed by a machine<br \/>\nwith slipping gears<br \/>\nand mistuned reeds,<br \/>\nam i a poem at all?<\/p>\n<p>shouldn't i transcend in construction,<br \/>\nexceed in precision, prose ?<br \/>\nif not, why package me as \"poem\" ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this little poem a couple of months ago in a thread about the poem read at Obama's inauguration. I'm putting it here so I can find it if I ever want to read it again. Feel free to ignore this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}