{"id":748,"date":"2009-12-12T18:40:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T01:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=748"},"modified":"2009-12-12T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T01:41:17","slug":"the-use-of-poetry-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/12\/the-use-of-poetry-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"What is poetry good for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read (and enjoyed) Ian McEwan&#8217;s story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2009\/12\/07\/091207fi_fiction_mcewan?printable=true\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Use of Poetry,&#8221;<\/a> in the New Yorker at the recommendation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trextragedies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">T-Rex Tragedies,<\/a> who cited this passage, which must make you laugh:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>She said goodbye politely enough and went on her way, but Beard walked after her and asked if she was free the next day, or the day after that, or at the weekend. No, no, and no. Then he said brightly, \u201cHow about ever?,\u201d and she laughed pleasantly, genuinely amused by his persistence, and seemed on the point of changing her mind. But she said, \u201cThere\u2019s always never? Can you make never?,\u201d to which he replied, \u201cI\u2019m not free,\u201d and she laughed again and made a sweet little mock punch to his lapel with a child-size fist and walked off, leaving him with the impression that he still had a chance, that she had a sense of humor, that he might wear her down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read (and enjoyed) Ian McEwan&#8217;s story, &#8220;The Use of Poetry,&#8221; in the New Yorker at the recommendation of T-Rex Tragedies, who cited this passage, which must make you laugh: She said goodbye politely enough and went on her way, but Beard walked after her and asked if she was free the next day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[142],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}