{"id":104,"date":"2008-04-03T01:03:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-08-23T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T03:53:17","slug":"poetism-commentary-a-whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/03\/poetism-commentary-a-whisper\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetism Commentary: &quot;A Whisper&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: <a href=\"\/pp\/a-whisper\/\">A Whisper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not really a lot to say about this poem, but what I said in my <a href=\"\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/poetism-commentary-empty-eyes\/\">last commentary<\/a> seems to apply pretty well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only thing that I can remember about writing this poem is that I wanted to write something. I needed to keep up the streak, even if the end result didn&#8217;t turn out as I hoped. I don&#8217;t remember what I was writing about then; I&#8217;m not sure that I even had anything specific in mind. Possibly I was just putting some words down that I thought could convey some message of which I was unaware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One thing is for certain: this poem is not very good, and doesn&#8217;t really mean anything.  (I suppose those are actually two things.)  It seems to me that it was written somewhat like <a href=\"\/pp\/pretense\/\">Pretense<\/a>, i.e. I wrote down the first words that came to mind, as quickly as I could, and called it good.  I like to keep things like this around so I have something to look at 10+ years later and have a good chuckle at myself.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.  Up next (assuming I don&#8217;t take another long break in writing) is a hopefully more interesting commentary about a hopefully more interesting (and better) poem.  Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poem in question: A Whisper There&#8217;s not really a lot to say about this poem, but what I said in my last commentary seems to apply pretty well: The only thing that I can remember about writing this poem is that I wanted to write something. I needed to keep up the streak, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}