{"id":19616,"date":"2016-08-15T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=19616"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:31:43","slug":"the-immortal-minds-were-his-brethren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/the-immortal-minds-were-his-brethren\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immortal Minds Were His Brethren"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Only a few close friends knew of his theory: that much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It need not exactly rhyme,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nay, it really ought not to rhyme. Rhyming verse in the long run is an underhand attack on the true being of poetry. But we should express our feelings, and communicate with one another, in blank verse. For iambics gently sway our nature\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rawness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto noble worth, and zealously divide\u00e2\u20ac\u201dchatter and tripe and scandal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s overspill\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom gold and silver in the human speech.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In the great moments of his existence Herr Soerensen himself thought in iambics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Isak Dinesen, &#8220;Tempests&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few close friends knew of his theory: that much which is unworthy in human life might be avoided if people would only accustom themselves to talking in verse. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It need not exactly rhyme,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nay, it really ought not to rhyme. Rhyming verse in the long run is an underhand attack on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2826,2703,2549],"class_list":["post-19616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-curing-of-ills","tag-dinesen","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->