{"id":3362,"date":"2012-07-31T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3362"},"modified":"2012-08-15T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T20:46:16","slug":"the-poetic-license","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-poetic-license\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetic License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the poetic license it is the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>A ship named <em>Conventional Poetry<\/em><br \/>\nis just sinking on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby in a lifeboat<br \/>\nForm and Vision shake hands holding the strings<br \/>\nof balloons between their lips.<\/p>\n<p>In the balloons are words of enthusiasm about sailing to America,<\/p>\n<p>the country where dawn is breaking and the Muse collapses<br \/>\non the grave of Washington,<br \/>\nnaming the states.<\/p>\n<p>Her balloon is so large it grazes the face of the farmer<br \/>\nplowing far off in the field.<br \/>\nHe goes right on waving,<\/p>\n<p>songs come out of the mouths<br \/>\nof his wife and children,<\/p>\n<p>out of the mouths of pioneers watching the figure of Columbia<br \/>\nlift off the prairie and rise<br \/>\nhalf out of her robe.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Burgeoning Art<br \/>\nOh Poetry Yet To Be, they say,<br \/>\npointing to her breasts<\/p>\n<p>that part the clouds,<br \/>\npointing to the clouds,<\/p>\n<p>pointing to my name inscribed across the West in longhand.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3362\" data-postid=\"3362\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3362 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the poetic license it is the nineteenth century. A ship named Conventional Poetry is just sinking on the horizon. Nearby in a lifeboat Form and Vision shake hands holding the strings of balloons between their lips. In the balloons are words of enthusiasm about sailing to America, the country where dawn is breaking and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3914,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3362\/revisions\/3914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}