{"id":1590,"date":"2011-05-17T21:44:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2011-05-18T06:47:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T11:47:47","slug":"pieces-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"PIECES OF THE PUZZLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWtVYYoJFl4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This post was triggered by a post on my wife&#8217;s facebook. One of her friends referenced the poem\/film &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zmciuKsBOi0&amp;playnext=1&amp;list=PL71C458C597C3F9F3\">this is the night mail<\/a>&#8221; A captivating clip. Truly remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>In college I spent the better part of three days with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/W._H._Auden\">W.H. Auden<\/a>. Listening to him recite his poems; drinking tea. talking quietly. I haven&#8217;t thought about this event in quite some time. Daily life has a way of interfering with things. It is a piece of my life. I could not say that it had a big impact; I did not become a poet or a writer. Yet I would not be who I am, had I not lived this moment; a piece of the puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was triggered by a post on my wife&#8217;s facebook. One of her friends referenced the poem\/film &#8220;this is the night mail&#8221; A captivating clip. Truly remarkable. In college I spent the better part of three days with W.H. Auden. Listening to him recite his poems; drinking tea. talking quietly. I haven&#8217;t thought about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=1590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PIECES OF THE PUZZLE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[710,709],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-of-rhode-island","tag-uri-2","tag-w-h-auden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}