{"id":12534,"date":"2015-05-17T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2015-05-17T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T14:46:28","slug":"the-last-couple-lines-the-corn-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12534","title":{"rendered":"The Last Couple Lines &#8211; The Corn Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Collins and Mark Pinsky both talk about getting your reader to the last couple lines of a poem, and giving the reader a reward, something to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>This poem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poetrymagazine\/poem\/183207\" target=\"_blank\">The Corn Baby by Mark Wunderlich<\/a>, is a great example of this and I hope you enjoy the end as much as I did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwunderlich.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Wunderlich&#8217;s site<\/a> has more poems to tempt you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Collins and Mark Pinsky both talk about getting your reader to the last couple lines of a poem, and giving the reader a reward, something to make it worthwhile. This poem, The Corn Baby by Mark Wunderlich, is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=12534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,147,51],"tags":[105,192,418],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-the-creative-process","tag-poetry","tag-process","tag-wunderlich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3ga","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}