{"id":368,"date":"2003-03-15T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2003-03-15T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=368"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T14:59:34","slug":"cat-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Cat Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>, whom I have stupidly neglected to add to my blogroll until now, posts <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/2003_03_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#90593594\">the world&#8217;s greatest cat poem<\/a>, really more an eccentric sermon, by Christopher Smart (1722-1781), considered by many to be the first mad poet in English history. Smart was locked up periodically for praying incessantly in the street. His friend Dr. Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.upenn.edu\/~jlynch\/Courses\/95c\/Texts\/smart.html\">didn&#8217;t like it<\/a>, and neither do I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eve Tushnet, whom I have stupidly neglected to add to my blogroll until now, posts the world&#8217;s greatest cat poem, really more an eccentric sermon, by Christopher Smart (1722-1781), considered by many to be the first mad poet in English history. Smart was locked up periodically for praying incessantly in the street. His friend Dr. <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=368' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}