{"id":917,"date":"2006-04-24T17:26:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/24\/americas-favorite-poem\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T17:26:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T21:26:26","slug":"americas-favorite-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/24\/americas-favorite-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is America’s Favorite Poem?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the publication of the third edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry<\/i>, they’re running a poll for “America’s Favorite Poem”<\/a>, and so far T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is beating out Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Come on, poetry fans: Are we going to let some monarchy-loving expatriate represent the best-loved American verse? I should think not!<\/p>\n

Weird Wallace Stevens choice, though: “Sunday Morning,” not “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”? And where’s John Greenleaf Whitter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To mark the publication of the third edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry, they’re running a poll for “America’s Favorite Poem”, and so far T.S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is beating out Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Come on, poetry fans: Are we going to […]<\/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\/917"}],"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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}