{"id":99,"date":"2008-05-28T20:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/05\/28\/bust-out-your-iambic-pentameter\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T20:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:20:21","slug":"bust-out-your-iambic-pentameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/05\/28\/bust-out-your-iambic-pentameter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bust out your iambic pentameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more Billy Collins for ya.<\/p>\n<p>I must say this is about how deep ole <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Shakespeare\">William<\/a>&#8216;s goods sounded to me in elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>This one is simply called <strong>Sonnet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,<br \/>\nand after this one just a dozen<br \/>\nto launch a little ship on love&#8217;s storm-tossed seas,<br \/>\nthen only ten more left like rows of beans.<br \/>\nHow easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan<br \/>\nand insist the iambic bongos must be played<br \/>\nand rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,<br \/>\none for every station of the cross.<br \/>\nBut hang on here while we make the turn<br \/>\ninto the final six where all will be resolved,<br \/>\nwhere longing and heartache will find an end,<br \/>\nwhere Laura will tell <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Petrarch\">Petrarch<\/a> to put down his pen,<br \/>\ntake off those crazy medieval tights,<br \/>\nblow out the lights, and come at last to bed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more Billy Collins for ya. I must say this is about how deep ole William&#8216;s goods sounded to me in elementary school. This one is simply called Sonnet. All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now, and after this one just a dozen to launch a little ship on love&#8217;s storm-tossed seas, then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/05\/28\/bust-out-your-iambic-pentameter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bust out your iambic pentameter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}