{"id":15486,"date":"2017-01-20T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2017-01-20T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:22:56","slug":"why-poetry-why-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15486","title":{"rendered":"Why Poetry, Why Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great nation should make great poetry. Like so many artists and musicians and writers and poets before him\u2014and so many that came after him\u2014Robert Frost wasn\u2019t afraid to say his piece or speak truth to power. He wasn\u2019t afraid to tell what was on his mind. He wasn\u2019t held back by convention or what was considered normal or acceptable. And that is an incredible power, an incredible resource. And we\u2019re seeing that power all across the world today. That\u2019s what challenges us. That\u2019s what pushes us to be better, to be more faithful to the sense of humanity that so often can be lost in the experiences of our daily lives. — President Barack Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great nation should make great poetry. Like so many artists and musicians and writers and poets before him\u2014and so many that came after him\u2014Robert Frost wasn\u2019t afraid to say his piece or speak truth to power. He wasn\u2019t afraid … Continue reading →<\/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":[13,144,147,310,51],"tags":[831,105,192],"class_list":["post-15486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-life-around-us","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-ripped-from-the-headlines","category-the-creative-process","tag-obama","tag-poetry","tag-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-41M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486","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=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}