{"id":490,"date":"2007-11-29T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T23:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/11\/23\/rain\/"},"modified":"2011-05-12T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:02:32","slug":"rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/11\/29\/rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>First winter rain by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2005\/01\/26\/lost-frog-in-the-thick-of-fog\/\">Matsuo Basho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First winter rain&#8211;<br \/>\neven the monkey<br \/>\nseems to want a raincoat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rain Rain Rain <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im3\/rain.jpg\" alt=\"Rain Monoprints by Fung Lin Hall\" \/><br \/>\nThree Monoprints by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\">Fung Lin Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Rain by Robert Creeley<\/p>\n<p>All night the sound had<br \/>\ncome back again,<br \/>\nand again falls<br \/>\nthis quite, persistent rain.<\/p>\n<p>What am I to myself<br \/>\nthat must be remembered,<br \/>\ninsisted upon<br \/>\nso often? Is it<\/p>\n<p>that never the ease,<br \/>\neven the hardness,<br \/>\nof rain falling<br \/>\nwill have for me<\/p>\n<p>something other than this,<br \/>\nsomething not so insistent&#8211;<br \/>\nam I to be locked in this<br \/>\nfinal uneasiness.<\/p>\n<p>Love, if you love me,<br \/>\nlie next to me.<br \/>\nBe for me, like rain,<br \/>\nthe getting out<\/p>\n<p>of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-<br \/>\nlust of intentional indifference.<br \/>\nBe wet<br \/>\nwith a decent happiness. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/thread\/electropoetics\/commodious\">Marjorie Perloff <\/a>on Robert Creeley&#8217;s Radical Poetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First winter rain by Matsuo Basho First winter rain&#8211; even the monkey seems to want a raincoat. Rain Rain Rain Three Monoprints by Fung Lin Hall The Rain by Robert Creeley All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quite, persistent rain. What am I to myself that must be remembered, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2007\/11\/29\/rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-poetry","category-robert-creeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}