{"id":5808,"date":"2009-11-06T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T08:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2011-05-14T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:55:46","slug":"amor-mundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5808","title":{"rendered":"amor mundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regressions, pentameters, dialogues,<br \/>\nMemoranda of understanding, plots,<br \/>\nResearch contracts, policy briefs, lectures,<br \/>\nOp-eds, philosophical arguments,<br \/>\nBudget narratives, translations, fact sheets,<br \/>\nHortatory afterwords, blind reviews,<br \/>\nClose readings, scatterplots, interview notes.<br \/>\nThese are things I write but not as well<br \/>\nAs they are written. I read and relish<br \/>\nMuch better than I compose and create.<br \/>\nA poor place to be at age forty-two;<br \/>\nThe biography shelf stands in reproach.<br \/>\nI plead restlessness and indiscipline.<br \/>\nDissatisfaction, ambition, ego&#8211;<br \/>\nSusceptibility to the thin charm<br \/>\nOf seeing first name, last name, title in print&#8211;<br \/>\nLure of the easy August downhill path<br \/>\nPlus unconfessed daydreams of synthesis<br \/>\nAnd a hapless, unquenched <a href=\"http:\/\/poetry.poetryx.com\/poems\/15980\/\">love of the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regressions, pentameters, dialogues, Memoranda of understanding, plots, Research contracts, policy briefs, lectures, Op-eds, philosophical arguments, Budget narratives, translations, fact sheets, Hortatory afterwords, blind reviews, Close readings, scatterplots, interview notes. These are things I write but not as well As they are written. I read and relish Much better than I compose and create. A poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6186,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}