{"id":16553,"date":"2014-06-08T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/for-some-reason-we-think-that-poetry-is-this\/"},"modified":"2014-06-08T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T15:57:32","slug":"for-some-reason-we-think-that-poetry-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/for-some-reason-we-think-that-poetry-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, we think that poetry is this thing you do on the side, once you get your math done or your science done. Same thing with writing or any of the things we call \u201cthe arts\u201d \u2013 there\u2019s this idea that they\u2019re just an elective, they\u2019re just decoration, and they have nothing to do with our survival \u2026 or why we can stand to be here. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the reason I\u2019ve made it to 53 \u2013 because of finding these things that poetry or painting or place contain. That\u2019s the stuff of mental health, and we ignore it at our peril.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><strong>Lynda Barry<\/strong>, brilliant as ever, in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/cartoonist-lynda-barry-reveals-the-best-way-to-memorize-poetry.html\">interview about poetry<\/a>. Pair with other luminaries on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/06\/26\/heart-of-the-matter-humanities\/\">how the humanities make us human<\/a>\u00a0and E.O. Wilson on why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/04\/25\/e-o-wilson-on-art\/\">science and the arts need one another<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Wordsworth was right when he wrote that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/24\/william-wordsworth-on-poetry\/\">poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.noodle.org\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, we think that poetry is this thing you do on the side, once you get your math done or your science done. Same thing with writing or any of the things we call \u201cthe arts\u201d \u2013 there\u2019s this idea that they\u2019re just an elective, they\u2019re just decoration, and they have nothing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4iZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}