{"id":870,"date":"2011-11-29T21:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T02:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=870"},"modified":"2011-11-29T22:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T03:03:23","slug":"ruth-stone-dead-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Stone, Dead at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_873\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruth-stone1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-873\" title=\"Ruth Stone \" src=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruth-stone1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruth-stone1-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ruth-stone1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruth Stone ~ June 8, 1915 - November 19, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On November 19th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/24\/arts\/ruth-stone-national-book-award-winner-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Poet Ruth Stone died at the age of 96<\/a>. Her body was buried under apple trees on the farm in Vermont where she lived and wrote for over 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I feel the need to publicly bow my head and say<em> thank you.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Ruth Stone, for your\u00c2\u00a0 devotion to poems &#8212; for obeying them whenever they called to you to write them down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrunkenboat.com\/stoneinterview.htm\">Interview with Ruth Stone in The Drunken Boat <\/a><\/p>\n<p>*************************<\/p>\n<p>In the Next Galaxy<br \/>\n<em>by Ruth Stone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Things will be different.<br \/>\nNo one will lose their sight,<br \/>\ntheir hearing, their gallbladder.<br \/>\nIt will be all Catskills with brand<br \/>\nnew wrap-around verandas.<br \/>\nThe idea of Hitler will not<br \/>\nhave vibrated yet.<br \/>\nWhile back here,<br \/>\nthey are still cleaning out<br \/>\npockets of wrinkled<br \/>\nNazis hiding in Argentina.<br \/>\nBut in the next galaxy,<br \/>\ncertain planets will have true<br \/>\nblue skies and drinking water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 19th Poet Ruth Stone died at the age of 96. Her body was buried under apple trees on the farm in Vermont where she lived and wrote for over 50 years. Meanwhile, I feel the need to publicly bow my head and say thank you.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you, Ruth Stone, for your\u00c2\u00a0 devotion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}