{"id":3495,"date":"2009-03-25T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T06:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:35:02","slug":"april-is-the-cruelest-coolest-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/03\/25\/april-is-the-cruelest-coolest-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April Is The <strike>Cruelest<\/strike> Coolest Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/191012\/page\/1\">The End of Verse?<\/a> Or, I can summarize it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Verse is not dead yet.<br \/>\nAs long as there is language<br \/>\npoems will exist.<\/p>\n<p>April is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/41\">National Poetry Month<\/a>. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/readwritepoem.org\/2009\/03\/19\/in-case-you-were-wondering-napowrimo-2009\/\">NaPoWriMo<\/a>. I tried this in 2006 and burned out halfway through the month, although some of what I wrote I thought was solid. I&#8217;m giving this year a pass, though who know? I might quietly be inspired to try. If I pretend I don&#8217;t really care, maybe I can fool myself into playing and actually accomplish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article here: The End of Verse? Or, I can summarize it for you. Verse is not dead yet. As long as there is language poems will exist. April is National Poetry Month. It&#8217;s also NaPoWriMo. I tried this in 2006 and burned out halfway through the month, although some of what I wrote I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,48,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11660,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}