{"id":3146,"date":"2013-04-30T17:25:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newagrarian.com\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:25:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T01:25:16","slug":"cheap-poetry-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/2013\/04\/30\/cheap-poetry-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap poetry, April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"poem\"><em>If you\u2019re new to this, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newagrarian.com\/2012\/09\/10\/cheap-poetry-a-manifesto\/\">Cheap Poetry Manifesto<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"poem\">Scattered on the path, the maple blossoms<br \/>\nDrops of blood shed by the spring&#8217;s new birthing.<br \/>\nThe rain will wash it clean, baptize the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poem\">The infant leaves, so pale and paper-smooth,<br \/>\nUninked by summer, by insects yet unbitten,<br \/>\nStill bear the hope of every imaginable season:<br \/>\nA book that pleases most while yet unwritten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poem\">Loblolly, lo unfaithful pine<br \/>\nSpills his seed upon the breeze,<br \/>\nFilms in yellow yours and mine<br \/>\nAnd maketh every one to sneeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poem\">Some birds have songs that ring out like a bell tone,<br \/>\nBut the wood thrush rings, I think, more like a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"poem\">I turn on the game: It&#8217;s 14 to 2,<br \/>\nThe other guys. What is a Phils fan to do<br \/>\nWith 8 runs to Halladay, 4 charged to Durbin?<br \/>\nPut down that beer, friend, and go for the bourbon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re new to this, read the Cheap Poetry Manifesto. Scattered on the path, the maple blossoms Drops of blood shed by the spring&#8217;s new birthing. The rain will wash it clean, baptize the season. The infant leaves, so pale and paper-smooth, Uninked by summer, by insects yet unbitten, Still bear the hope of every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[276],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8I1ci-OK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidwalbert.com\/dw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}