{"id":70142,"date":"2018-04-12T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70142"},"modified":"2018-04-12T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T20:16:48","slug":"time-magazine-speaks-to-poet-laureate-tracy-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70142","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine speaks to Poet Laureate Tracy Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does poetry matter today?<\/p>\n<p>Poetry requires us to be humble and beholden to something other than our own opinion. That\u2019s important. There\u2019s too much in our 21st century lives that is telling us we\u2019re the most important thing, that our initial gut reaction is incredibly valuable and not vulnerable, and that our opinions as consumers are more important than just about anything else about us. A poem says, \u201cNo, no. You have feelings. You have fears. You have questions. Let\u2019s get back to the voice and the vocabulary of being human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5220084\/tracy-k-smith\/?iid=sr-link1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TIME<\/a> talks with Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalPoetryMonth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NationalPoetryMonth<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cCyNrBXFEZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/cCyNrBXFEZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SmVuQL0ksl\">pic.twitter.com\/SmVuQL0ksl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Temple Libraries (@TempleLibraries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TempleLibraries\/status\/984073652089040898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does poetry matter today? Poetry requires us to be humble and beholden to something other than our own opinion. That\u2019s important. There\u2019s too much in our 21st century lives that is telling us we\u2019re the most important thing, that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70142\">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":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70142","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=70142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70158,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70142\/revisions\/70158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}