{"id":254,"date":"2010-07-14T15:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=254"},"modified":"2010-07-14T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:41:55","slug":"link-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Link Wednesday &#8211; E-Readers, W.S. Merwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"w.s. merwin in the 1960s\" src=\"images\/merwin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Item 1<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100714\/ap_en_ot\/us_books_e_poetry_blues\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">How will poetry and e-readers mingle?<\/span><\/a> An interesting article that raises concerns (and features <a href=\"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?s=collins\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Billy Collins<\/span><\/a>) about how e-readers can display and potentially change poetry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Item 2<\/strong> &#8211; NPR has posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128239404&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1037\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">interview<\/span><\/a> with incoming US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin.  My favorite Merwin trivia &#8211; he currently lives on top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii in what used to be a pineapple plantation.  Really embracing the poet as isolationist, there.<\/p>\n<p><font size=1\">image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.achievement.org\/autodoc\/photocredit\/achievers\/mer0-010\" \"target=\"blank\">academy of achievement<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Item 1 &#8211; How will poetry and e-readers mingle? An interesting article that raises concerns (and features Billy Collins) about how e-readers can display and potentially change poetry. Item 2 &#8211; NPR has posted an interview with incoming US Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. My favorite Merwin trivia &#8211; he currently lives on top of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}