{"id":327,"date":"2011-04-16T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-04-19T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T16:53:48","slug":"agha-shadid-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Agha Shadid Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>No,<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>not in the clear stream,<br \/>\nI went fishing in the desert sky.<br \/>\nWith rain-hooks at the sun&#8217;s end,<br \/>\nI caught a rainbow, its colors<br \/>\nslippery in my hands.<br \/>\nI gently separated,<br \/>\nlike the bones of a trout,<br \/>\nthe blue from the red,<br \/>\nthe green from the yellow,<br \/>\nmy knife sharp, silver-exact,<br \/>\neach color lean,<br \/>\nimpeccably carved.<br \/>\nBut the rainbow&#8217;s end,<br \/>\nthough I cleaned and washed<br \/>\nthe earth from it,<br \/>\ntasted bitter,<br \/>\nlike gold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the book <em>A Nostalgist&#8217;s Map of America <\/em>(Norton: 1991, out of print). About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/127\">Agha Shadid Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not in the clear stream, I went fishing in the desert sky. With rain-hooks at the sun&#8217;s end, I caught a rainbow, its colors slippery in my hands. I gently separated, like the bones of a trout, the blue from the red, the green from the yellow, my knife sharp, silver-exact, each color lean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}