{"id":1033,"date":"2026-02-13T09:40:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:55:34","slug":"ciardi-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"Ciardi Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>You speak of science -- how it lacks\r\nimagination, soul and art --\r\nand thus you parrot other hacks\r\nlike John Ciardi, stupid fart,\r\n\r\nwho saw as ogre anyone\r\nwho tried to understand the world\r\nand, trying, lit up like a Sun\r\nthe magic science has unfurled\r\n\r\nby pruning everything unreal\r\nand leaving unsuspected truth\r\neclipsing falsehoods that you feel\r\nsustain the fantasies of youth.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You speak of science &#8212; how it lacks imagination, soul and art &#8212; and thus you parrot other hacks like John Ciardi, stupid fart, who saw as ogre anyone who tried to understand the world and, trying, lit up like a Sun the magic science has unfurled by pruning everything<a href=\"https:\/\/jick.ca\/?p=1033\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-and-after","category-poetry"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jick.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}