{"id":2246,"date":"2026-04-22T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:20:35","slug":"thought-for-the-day-april-22-20226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/thought-for-the-day-april-22-20226\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day &#8211; April 22, 20226"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If this was a graduate seminar at the university, I would ask you to read Ben Lerner&#8217;s little book, <em>The Hatred of Poetry. <\/em>One can sum up his argument by saying that poetry is essential but impossible, like love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this was a graduate seminar at the university, I would ask you to read Ben Lerner&#8217;s little book, The Hatred of Poetry. One can sum up his argument by saying that poetry is essential but impossible, like love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}