{"id":143459,"date":"2023-09-03T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143459"},"modified":"2023-09-03T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:16:08","slug":"hour-14-with-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-14-with-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 14 : With Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Coffee and Conversations with Whitman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me: Mr. Whitman, what gave you the idea to start writing poetry?<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman: My strong ties to people and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Can you describe the underlying principles of &#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman: It honours the beauty of life and how individuals are related to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Me: What served as the inspiration for &#8220;Song of Myself&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman: Introspection and the idea that people are universal.<\/p>\n<p>Me: As a poet, you have left a huge legacy. Any words of wisdom for aspiring poets?<\/p>\n<p>Walt Whitman advised staying loyal to oneself, writing from the heart, and accepting the complexities of life.<\/p>\n<p>Me: I appreciate your ageless wisdom, Mr. Whitman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee and Conversations with Whitman &nbsp; Me: Mr. Whitman, what gave you the idea to start writing poetry? Walt Whitman: My strong ties to people and the environment. Me: Can you describe the underlying principles of &#8220;Leaves of Grass&#8221;? Walt Whitman: It honours the beauty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143491,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143459\/revisions\/143491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}