{"id":1466,"date":"2009-01-22T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2009-01-22T16:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T20:02:06","slug":"about-the-inaugural-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/01\/22\/about-the-inaugural-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Inaugural Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s Presidency may be the dawning of a new age, but the art of poetry may never recover.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic\">The poem \u201cPraise Song for the Day,\u201d written and recited by Elizabeth Alexander at President Obama&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, 2009, is posted at <a title=\"read it\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/20text-poem.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> (I linked to it because I certainly don&#8217;t want it here.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic\">The oath of office wasn&#8217;t the only thing that suffered at the ceremony. <\/span><span class=\"italic\">This is a watery thin, disjointed anachronism. Why couldn&#8217;t the most eloquent politician of the age have chosen a poet to write his inaugural poem?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic\">John Kennedy had Robert Frost. Barack Obama had somebody else.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama&#8217;s Presidency may be the dawning of a new age, but the art of poetry may never recover. The poem \u201cPraise Song for the Day,\u201d written and recited by Elizabeth Alexander at President Obama&#8217;s inauguration on January 20, 2009, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2009\/01\/22\/about-the-inaugural-poem\/\">Continue reading <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":[7,9,416],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-on-poetry","category-thoughts-below-ground","tag-the-art-of-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}