{"id":1393,"date":"2007-08-27T08:45:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2007-08-27T08:45:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T15:45:33","slug":"soonest-mended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/soonest-mended\/","title":{"rendered":"Soonest Mended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=177260\">John Ashbery<\/a> (1966)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Barely tolerated, living on the margin<br \/>\nIn our technological society, we were always having to be rescued<br \/>\nOn the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso<br \/>\nBefore it was time to start all over again.<br \/>\nThere would be thunder in the bushes, a rustling of coils,<br \/>\nAnd Angelica, in the Ingres painting, was considering<br \/>\nThe colorful but small monster near her toe, as though wondering whether forgetting<br \/>\nThe whole thing might not, in the end, be the only solution.<br \/>\nAnd then there always came a time when<br \/>\nHappy Hooligan in his rusted green automobile<br \/>\nCame plowing down the course, just to make sure everything was O.K.,<br \/>\nOnly by that time we were in another chapter and confused<br \/>\nAbout how to receive this latest piece of information.<br \/>\nWas it information? Weren\u2019t we rather acting this out<br \/>\nFor someone else\u2019s benefit, thoughts in a mind<br \/>\nWith room enough and to spare for our little problems (so they began to seem),<br \/>\nOur daily quandary about food and the rent and bills to be paid?<br \/>\nTo reduce all this to a small variant,<br \/>\nTo step free at last, minuscule on the gigantic plateau\u2014<br \/>\nThis was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Ashbery (1966) Barely tolerated, living on the margin In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued On the brink of destruction, like heroines in Orlando Furioso Before it was time to start all over again. There would be thunder in the bushes, a rustling of coils, And Angelica, in the Ingres painting, was considering The colorful but small monster near her toe, as though wondering whether forgetting The whole thing might not, in the end,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[151,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-poetry","category-tech","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-mt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}