{"id":234,"date":"2006-01-09T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=234"},"modified":"2006-01-09T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T02:03:00","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/life-imitates-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>When I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/cnjonline.com\/engine.pl?\n\nstation=clovis&#038;template=storyfull.html&#038;id=14942\">the news about a mouse burning down a house<\/a>, I immediately recalled a poem <\/p>\n<p>by Billy Collins. One might say life imitates art again, but the news is more about karma. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"bottom of the page\" \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.stpetershigh.org.uk\/DEPARTMENTS\/ENGLISH_DEPT\/PRUSH\/KS4_Resources\/Billy_Collins_project.html\">The Country<\/a> by Billy <\/p>\n<p>Collins <\/p>\n<p>Who could fail to notice,<\/p>\n<p>lit up in the blazing insulation,<br \/>\nthe tiny looks of wonderment on the faces<br \/>\nof his <\/p>\n<p>fellow mice, onetime inhabitants<br \/>\nof what once was your house in the country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard the news about a mouse burning down a house, I immediately recalled a poem by Billy Collins. One might say life imitates art again, but the news is more about karma. mjh The Country by Billy Collins Who could fail to notice, lit up in the blazing insulation, the tiny looks of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/poetry\/life-imitates-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life Imitates Art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}