{"id":26256,"date":"2020-05-19T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26256"},"modified":"2020-05-19T10:48:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:48:36","slug":"homeschooling-update-a-ink-licking-good-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/19\/homeschooling-update-a-ink-licking-good-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeschooling Update: A Ink-Licking Good Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s poem was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2017\/03\/anniversary\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anniversary by Marjorie Maddox<\/a>, a poem that my beautiful wife clipped from <em>First Things<\/em> magazine and deployed this week to remind me we have a wedding anniversary coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Roark, a.k.a. the Big Bopper, a.k.a. <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/nicknaming-him-when-hes-down\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radar Love<\/a>, kept interrupting my writing to lick the part of the poem I&#8217;d already written:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/roarklickingpoem.jpg\" target=\"_new\"><\/p>\n<p>Not a bad poem; a villanelle, of which I might have written one or more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Coffee-House-Memories-Brian-Noggle\/dp\/0983212341\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">once upon a time<\/a>.  Certainly better than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2017\/03\/comfort-food\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poem on the other side of the page<\/a>, although the boys liked it better because it was shorter, mostly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s poem was Anniversary by Marjorie Maddox, a poem that my beautiful wife clipped from First Things magazine and deployed this week to remind me we have a wedding anniversary coming up. Roark, a.k.a. the Big Bopper, a.k.a. Radar Love, kept interrupting my writing to lick the part of the poem I&#8217;d already written: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26258,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26256\/revisions\/26258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}