{"id":331,"date":"2014-01-30T18:17:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_marcus\/?p=331"},"modified":"2024-08-19T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T16:43:33","slug":"poem-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Poem of the Month, February 2014: Lunchtime Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 1.6875;\">(not previously published)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Google has a project<br \/>\nto digitalize<br \/>\nevery book in the world &#8211;<br \/>\nin one library.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Those were my wife&#8217;s very words<br \/>\nflipping through <i>Humo <\/i>magazine<br \/>\nin search of a concert<br \/>\nover Sunday afternoon lunch.<\/p>\n<p>She has a winning soft voice<br \/>\nwithout sarcastic innuendos<br \/>\nand did not expect a reaction<br \/>\nfrom me with my teeth in cheese.<\/p>\n<p>She certainly didn&#8217;t get one.<br \/>\nBarring speculation as to whether<br \/>\nthis planet will have exploded<br \/>\nby the time those books are written,<\/p>\n<p>I am currently more preoccupied<br \/>\nwith getting three budding talents<br \/>\nunder the age of twenty-four<br \/>\ninto <i>A Handful of Poetry <\/i>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>a volume in five sections<br \/>\nalso featuring two old lags . . .<br \/>\nwithout the help of my computer,<br \/>\nwithout the sweat of my brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUNCHTIME CONVERSATION (not previously published) &#8216;Google has a project to digitalize every book in the world &#8211; in one library.&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olioweb.me.uk\/marcus\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}