{"id":40287,"date":"2013-09-28T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_on_t-s-_eliots_125th_birthday_his_waste_land_hasnt_lost_its_glamour\/"},"modified":"2013-09-28T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T23:40:12","slug":"npr_on_t-s-_eliots_125th_birthday_his_waste_land_hasnt_lost_its_glamour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40287","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) On T.S. Eliot&#39;s 125th Birthday, His &#39;Waste Land&#39; Hasn&#39;t Lost Its Glamour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get a Nobel Prize-winning poet for his birthday?<\/p>\n<p>The poet, in this case, is T.S. Eliot, and this year he would have turned the intimidating age of 125. It&#8217;s a tough question, but New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon has got an answer: a new re-issue of the first edition of Eliot&#8217;s groundbreaking poem, The Waste Land.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a jumbled, odd and beautifully dissonant poem \u201d\u201d well-loved, but sometimes hard to like. The opening lines might be the most famous phrase in modern literature: &#8220;April is the cruelest month, breeding \/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing \/ Memory and desire, stirring \/ Dull roots with spring rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/09\/28\/226564650\/on-eliots-125th-his-waste-land-hasnt-lost-its-glamour\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get a Nobel Prize-winning poet for his birthday? The poet, in this case, is T.S. Eliot, and this year he would have turned the intimidating age of 125. It&#8217;s a tough question, but New Yorker poetry editor<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40287\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}