{"id":2363,"date":"2009-01-22T19:49:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2009-01-22T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:49:36","slug":"more-on-that-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"More on That Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank links to one review saying <a href=\"http:\/\/booksinq.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/strike-three.html\">Alexander&#8217;s inaugural poem<\/a> was &#8220;history\u2019s worst inaugural poem&#8221; and to another review saying, &#8220;It is what one expects from an earnest junior-high-school student with little gift for language, or from a professor at Yale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That second post quotes poet Geoffrey Hill, saying society has no use for poets.  &#8220;The great poet has no social function. The mediocre, yes, he finds himself delivering fashionable platitudes to the public. The true poet is completely isolated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank links to one review saying Alexander&#8217;s inaugural poem was &#8220;history\u2019s worst inaugural poem&#8221; and to another review saying, &#8220;It is what one expects from an earnest junior-high-school student with little gift for language, or from a professor at Yale.&#8221; That second post quotes poet Geoffrey Hill, saying society has no use for poets. &#8220;The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More on That Poem<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}