{"id":17978,"date":"2015-01-17T22:49:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17978"},"modified":"2015-01-17T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T03:49:14","slug":"why-bob-writes-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/17\/why-bob-writes-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bob writes poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Robert Hass, who won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Awards last year from the Academy of American Poets, was one of 14 people interviewed for the January\/February 2015 issue of <em>Esquire<\/em>  about their 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many interesting things Hass had to say was this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My younger brother once said to my mother, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why Bob writes poetry. Nobody reads it.&#8221; And my mother said to him, &#8220;Yes, but they don&#8217;t read it for a long time.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping we all have readers who don&#8217;t read us for a long time. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers always put these things in perspective, don&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Robert Hass, who won the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Awards last year from the Academy of American Poets, was one of 14 people interviewed for the January\/February 2015 issue of Esquire about their 2014. Among the many interesting things Hass had to say was this. My younger brother once said to my mother, &#8220;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[323,353],"class_list":["post-17978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esquire","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17984,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17978\/revisions\/17984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}