{"id":105,"date":"1985-06-30T22:10:20","date_gmt":"1985-07-01T05:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:15:49","slug":"reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/06\/30\/reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you all have read<br \/>\nAnd yourself included,<br \/>\nA collection of these letters,<br \/>\nStrung into words of wisdom,<br \/>\nStrung into lines of fury,<br \/>\nStanzas of all deluded<br \/>\nMisconstrued and fettered<br \/>\nLetters.<\/p>\n<p>These are nothing.<br \/>\nWords are ink;<br \/>\nWords are nothing,<br \/>\nUntil you all,<br \/>\nAnd yourself included,<br \/>\nBecome the reader.<\/p>\n<p>The reader is the poem,<br \/>\nAnd that is you!<br \/>\nAnd how do I<br \/>\nKnow it to be true?<br \/>\nWell, you see,<br \/>\nI read poems too!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the reader is the poem,<br \/>\nWhich does not speak in words;<br \/>\nImages of images<br \/>\nAnd even as you read,<br \/>\nAnd image of an image<br \/>\nOf you conjuring<br \/>\nMental images &#8211;<br \/>\nIs transformed into<br \/>\nA feeling.<\/p>\n<p>And what is your feeling?<br \/>\nAnd what is your response?<br \/>\nAnd what have you gained<br \/>\nFrom the ink upon this page?<br \/>\nDoes it make any sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you all have read<br \/> And yourself included,<br \/> A collection of these letters,<br \/> Strung into words of wisdom,<br \/> Strung into lines of fury,<br \/> Stanzas of all deluded<br \/> Misconstrued and fettered<br \/> Letters.<\/p>\n<p>These are nothing.<br \/> Words are ink;<br \/> Words are nothing,<br \/> Until you all,<br \/> And yourself included,<br \/> Become the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}