{"id":65396,"date":"2021-03-31T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T07:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=65396"},"modified":"2021-05-01T16:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T16:31:14","slug":"sand-dabs-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/sand-dabs-one\/","title":{"rendered":"sand dabs, one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To imitate or not to imitate \u2014 the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always remember \u2014 the speaker doesn\u2019t do it. The words do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea must drive the words. When the words drive the idea, it\u2019s all floss and gloss, elaboration, air bubbles, dross, pomp, frump, strumpeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t close the poem as you opened it, unless your name is Blake and you have written a poem about a Tyger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blue Pastures<\/em> (1995), Mary Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lists, and verbs, will carry you many a dry mile. To imitate or not to imitate \u2014 the question is easily satisfied. The perils of not imitating are greater than the perils of imitating. Always remember \u2014 the speaker doesn\u2019t do it. The words do it. Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/sand-dabs-one\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3456,18,122],"tags":[4173,4172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65561,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65396\/revisions\/65561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}