{"id":554,"date":"2014-03-07T18:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/?p=554"},"modified":"2014-03-07T18:41:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T13:11:33","slug":"introduction-to-poetry-by-billy-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/poetry-2\/introduction-to-poetry-by-billy-collins","title":{"rendered":"Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poemhunter.com\/poem\/introduction-to-poetry\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    I ask them to take a poem<br \/>\n    and hold it up to the light<br \/>\n    like a color slide<\/p>\n<p>    or press an ear against its hive.<\/p>\n<p>    I say drop a mouse into a poem<br \/>\n    and watch him probe his way out,<\/p>\n<p>    or walk inside the poem&#8217;s room<br \/>\n    and feel the walls for a light switch.<\/p>\n<p>    I want them to waterski<br \/>\n    across the surface of a poem<br \/>\n    waving at the author&#8217;s name on the shore.<\/p>\n<p>    But all they want to do<br \/>\n    is tie the poem to a chair with rope<br \/>\n    and torture a confession out of it.<\/p>\n<p>    They begin beating it with a hose<br \/>\n    to find out what it really means. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taken from here: I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem&#8217;s room and feel the walls for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/poetry-2\/introduction-to-poetry-by-billy-collins\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[124],"tags":[58,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}