{"id":24512,"date":"2014-03-15T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24512"},"modified":"2014-02-16T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T05:02:46","slug":"a-poetry-quote-for-saturday-from-russell-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/03\/15\/a-poetry-quote-for-saturday-from-russell-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poetry Quote for Saturday, From Russel Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;I gave up poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/russell-baker-9196061\" target=\"_blank\">Russel Baker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Although a poet myself, this quote always makes me laugh, not least because I <em>do<\/em> know what he means. Some modern poetry is <em>very<\/em> inaccessible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I gave up poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.&#8221; ~ Russel Baker &#8212; Although a poet myself, this quote always makes me laugh, not least because I do know what he means. Some modern poetry is very inaccessible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24538,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions\/24538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}