{"id":1026,"date":"2008-07-28T18:51:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-03-06T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T18:57:57","slug":"not-irrelevant-to-the-present-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Not irrelevant to the present moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tripping along in my leisurely reading of Guy Davenport&#8217;s <b>Geography of the Imagination<\/b> (which, by the way, is mostly about poets and other artsy rapscallions), I came upon this marvelous bit of invective:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True, it was a year in which the country had to turn out a pack of scoundrels, porch climbers, thieves, bullies, liars, and bores from the Executive Branch of the government, a year in which the sludge of usury which forms the basis of our economy began to slither and lurch, a year indistinguishable from any other in the national contempt for the arts. (pg 273)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Davenport refers to 1974, but&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripping along in my leisurely reading of Guy Davenport&#8217;s Geography of the Imagination (which, by the way, is mostly about poets and other artsy rapscallions), I came upon this marvelous bit of invective: True, it was a year in which the country had to turn out a pack of scoundrels, porch climbers, thieves, bullies, liars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argybargy","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}