{"id":918,"date":"2007-10-05T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T06:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=918"},"modified":"2007-10-05T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T06:01:46","slug":"poetry-what-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Poetry What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/henrymiller1.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Miller photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, photographer; first published in the U.S. in 1923; image in the public domain\">So, yes, it&#8217;s my turn for Poetry Friday, but a) I&#8217;m packing for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinbrande.com\/1st-annual-kidlitosphere-conference-rsvp-list\/\">1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference<\/a><\/strong>, and b) I&#8217;ve been busy this week with my work that . . . well, <em>pays<\/em>, to be frank. Yes, as much as I love runnin&#8217; my mouth about literature here at 7-Imp, it&#8217;s a labor of love which does not help pay the bills, and so the work that <em>does<\/em> help pay the bills came first this week. This means I don&#8217;t have a proper book review for you today or a well-considered poem. But I&#8217;ll get back to that soon enough. <\/p>\n<p>What I <em>did<\/em> stumble across, which I want to quickly share (and which is not poetry), is this little piece of advice I had jotted down years ago in a journal and just re-discovered. It&#8217;s from the mind of writer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Miller\">Henry Miller<\/a><\/strong> (pictured here in a photo taken by photographer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Van_Vechten\">Carl Van Vechten<\/a><\/strong> and first published in the U.S. in 1923; the image is in the public domain): <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music &#8212; the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls, and interesting people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s to the beautiful souls and interesting people I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting tomorrow when I arrive in Chicago. I&#8217;m really excited about meeting the faces behind the blogs. Safe travels to everyone else attending, too. Until tomorrow . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, yes, it&#8217;s my turn for Poetry Friday, but a) I&#8217;m packing for the 1st Annual Kidlitosphere Conference, and b) I&#8217;ve been busy this week with my work that . . . well, pays, to be frank. Yes, as much as I love runnin&#8217; my mouth about literature here at 7-Imp, it&#8217;s a labor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}