{"id":11,"date":"2019-06-01T19:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalille.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T20:37:59","slug":"visible-presence-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Visible Presence of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p><em class=\"gk\">\u201cWe don\u2019t read and write poetry because it\u2019s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, \u201cO me! O life!\u2026 of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless\u2026 of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?\u201d \u201cAnswer. That you are here \u2014 that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><strong class=\"fs gl\"><em class=\"gk\">That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse.<\/em><\/strong><em class=\"gk\">\u00a0What will your verse be?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">~ John Keating, Dead Poets Society<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t read and write poetry because it\u2019s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalille.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}