{"id":686,"date":"2007-04-16T19:20:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/16\/linda-gregerson-magnete\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:24:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:24:41","slug":"linda-gregerson-magnete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/16\/linda-gregerson-magnete\/","title":{"rendered":"Linda Gregerson, from &#8220;De Magnete&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>It was during the siege of Lucera\r\n     that Petrus Peregrinus (Peter\r\nthe Pilgrim), builder of catapults, layer\r\nof mines, chief engineer and servant\r\n     to Charles the servant of God,\r\nconducted in his leisure hours behind\r\n     the fortifications whose\r\nerection he himself had lately overseen\r\n     experiments on the lodestone.\r\nFrom his letter \"On the Magnet\" (August\r\n     8, 1269), a world\r\nof usefulness and chiefly as to method, only\r\n     later named and codified. \"My dearest\r\nfriend,\" he wrote. The scorching wind.\r\n     The city not yet fallen. Soon.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0618718702\"><i>Magnetic North<\/i><\/a>, which also includes the long poem &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/19550\">Bicameral<\/a>.&#8221; Gregerson will be taking part in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.readab.com\/\">Reading Between A &#038; B<\/a>&#8221; series next month with C. Dale Young and John Gallaher. Here&#8217;s a preview of what she might sound like: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/16268\">Narrow Flame<\/a>,&#8221; which she read last month to an Atlanta audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was during the siege of Lucera that Petrus Peregrinus (Peter the Pilgrim), builder of catapults, layer of mines, chief engineer and servant to Charles the servant of God, conducted in his leisure hours behind the fortifications whose erection he himself had lately overseen experiments on the lodestone. From his letter &#8220;On the Magnet&#8221; (August [&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\/686"}],"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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}