{"id":87,"date":"2011-04-12T17:41:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/wordpress\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-04-30T23:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T23:07:51","slug":"the-living-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/the-living-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Living Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-87-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheLivingLanguageVx3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheLivingLanguageVx3.mp3\">https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheLivingLanguageVx3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We wish to hear words ring<br \/>\nand bellow monosyllables, squeak<br \/>\nsentences like day-end spleen of beasts<br \/>\non city hills, our songs float<br \/>\nin polluting bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>We imagine other wise.<br \/>\nWe seem to think we think<br \/>\nsome things, that fine words surge<br \/>\nthrough our hoary longing, that silver-tonged<br \/>\nwinds sough through our reeds.<\/p>\n<p>Then what is the yammering clamour<br \/>\nabout me, the claw-hammering<br \/>\nof muttered songs, the bleak-bland<br \/>\nwhinnying of city voices, the clod<br \/>\nwhopping of jaws?<\/p>\n<p>What has happened to Simon\u2019s language?<br \/>\nWhat has happened to simple song?<br \/>\nWhat has happened to the Muse within us?<br \/>\nShe gone, simply,<br \/>\nsimply gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-content\/audio\/TheLivingLanguageVx3.mp3 &nbsp; We wish to hear words ring and bellow monosyllables, squeak sentences like day-end spleen of beasts on city hills, our songs float in polluting bubbles. We imagine other wise. We seem to think we think some things, that fine words surge through our hoary longing, that silver-tonged winds sough through our reeds. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1946,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/1946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderickson.com\/ode\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}