{"id":10270,"date":"2015-11-09T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2015-11-10T04:43:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T04:43:25","slug":"jack-gilbert-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/09\/jack-gilbert-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"jack gilbert, part three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one more bit from the paris review interview with poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5583\/the-art-of-poetry-no-91-jack-gilbert\" target=\"_blank\">jack gilbert<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What, other than yourself, is the subject of your poems?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GILBERT<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Those I love. Being. Living my life without being diverted into things that people so often get diverted into. Being alive is so extraordinary I don\u2019t know why people limit it to riches, pride, security\u2014all of those things life is built on. People miss so much because they want money and comfort and pride, a house and a job to pay for the house. And they have to get a car. You can\u2019t see anything from a car. It\u2019s moving too fast. People take vacations. That\u2019s their reward\u2014the vacation. Why not the life? Vacations are second-rate. People deprive themselves of so much of their lives\u2014until it\u2019s too late. Though I understand that often you don\u2019t have a choice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one more bit from the paris review interview with poet jack gilbert: INTERVIEWER What, other than yourself, is the subject of your poems? GILBERT Those I love. Being. Living my life without being diverted into things that people so often get diverted into. Being alive is so extraordinary I don\u2019t know why people limit it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10291,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions\/10291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}