{"id":164217,"date":"2022-05-19T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=164217"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:36:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:36:30","slug":"poetry-corner-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/poetry-corner-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry corner: in memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/html\/office-assertion-10250.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joyce Kilmer, updated by John Leo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Versified and rhythmic non-prose verbal arrangements are fashioned by people of alternative intelligence such as myself, but only the divine entity, should he or she actually exist, can create a solar-shielding park structure from low-rise indigenous vegetative material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Leo, a very funny, very serious writer whose columns were among the few things worth reading in the newspaper<span id='easy-footnote-1-164217' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/poetry-corner-in-memoriam\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-164217' title='His primary venue was &lt;i&gt;U.S. News and World Report&lt;\/i&gt;, but the Wichita paper, back before it became complete trash, frequently reprinted his articles, and that is where I encountered them.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> before the turn of the century, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/bulletin-board\/in-memoriam-veteran-journalist-john-leo-who-pioneered-reporting-on-higher-ed-illiberalism\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died earlier<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2022\/05\/18\/john-leo-rip\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this month<\/a>. His collection <i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/076580400X\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police<\/a><\/b><\/i><span id='easy-footnote-2-164217' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/poetry-corner-in-memoriam\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-164217' title='The &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0671886983\/&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;first edition&lt;\/a&gt; is cheaper, but it&amp;#8217;s missing some later essays.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> is fun to browse through.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2022\/05\/19\/one-star-less\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim Du Toit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joyce Kilmer, updated by John Leo: Versified and rhythmic non-prose verbal arrangements are fashioned by people of alternative intelligence such as myself, but only the divine entity, should he or she actually exist, can create a solar-shielding park structure from low-rise indigenous vegetative material. John Leo, a very funny, very serious writer whose columns were &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/poetry-corner-in-memoriam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry corner: in memoriam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,645,10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-dead-people","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-GIF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164219,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164217\/revisions\/164219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}