{"id":717,"date":"2015-12-05T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:26:09","slug":"a-sonnet-called-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"A Sonnet Called Sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to write a sonnet answering thee,<br \/>\nAnd yet no matter how the lines were set,<br \/>\nThe verse turned turgid and Italianate,<br \/>\nBeneath my black-thumb hammer poetry.<br \/>\nA disquisition on astronomy<br \/>\nAnd souls paid four-sevenths of the debt<br \/>\nBut my rhymes could only counterfeit<br \/>\nBereft, betrayed, extinct sincerity.<br \/>\nNeither would my <em>volta<\/em> vault, nor words<br \/>\nExceed themselves; the whole would not gel.<br \/>\nRevulsed and weary of excreted words,<br \/>\nUnshriven, I consigned them all to hell.<br \/>\nAnd so I&#8217;m left without a poem for you<br \/>\nAnd cannot say the truths I know are true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to write a sonnet answering thee, And yet no matter how the lines were set, The verse turned turgid and Italianate, Beneath my black-thumb hammer poetry. A disquisition on astronomy And souls paid four-sevenths of the debt But my rhymes could only counterfeit Bereft, betrayed, extinct sincerity. Neither would my volta vault, nor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sonnet Called Sonnet&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}