{"id":8310,"date":"2016-09-08T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2016-09-08T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:41:03","slug":"why-memorize-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"Why Memorize Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/09\/what-you-learn-when-you-learn-a-poem-by-heart\/\">To memorise a poem is to inhabit<\/a> and understand it in a way rarely possible when you just read it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>James Delingpole\u00a0decided to memorize a poem and describes for us what we can learn from that practice. &#8220;Learning a poem is a good way of experiencing this creative process [of polishing a work to be its best] because, like the poet, you\u2019re compelled to weigh each word.&#8221; (via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To memorise a poem is to inhabit and understand it in a way rarely possible when you just read it.&#8221; James Delingpole\u00a0decided to memorize a poem and describes for us what we can learn from that practice. &#8220;Learning a poem is a good way of experiencing this creative process [of polishing a work to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Memorize Poetry<\/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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[11,17],"tags":[1370,1833],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-james-delingpole","tag-mental-habits"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}