{"id":448,"date":"2007-06-24T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/24\/les-murray-test\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T04:36:31","slug":"les-murray-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/06\/24\/les-murray-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Murray, &#8220;The Test&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How good is their best?<br \/>\nAnd how good is their rest?<br \/>\nThe first is a question to be asked of an artist.<br \/>\nBoth are the questions to be asked of a culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0374115486\"><i>The Biplane Houses<\/i><\/a>. This recent collection from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesmurray.org\/\">Australia&#8217;s leading poet<\/a>&#8221; was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2007\/06\/11\/070611crbo_books_chiasson\">reviewed in the <i>New Yorker<\/i><\/a>, where Dan Chiasson, while describing the poet as a self-created &#8220;cartoon hick in an overplayed idiom,&#8221; went on to say that &#8220;the thrill of reading Murray is seeing how the heart that feels will catch up with the eye that sees.&#8221; Les Murray&#8217;s website has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesmurray.org\/recent.htm#ssp\">an assortment of poems<\/a> from the new collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How good is their best? And how good is their rest? The first is a question to be asked of an artist. Both are the questions to be asked of a culture. From The Biplane Houses. This recent collection from &#8220;Australia&#8217;s leading poet&#8221; was recently reviewed in the New Yorker, where Dan Chiasson, while describing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}