{"id":3374,"date":"2024-02-09T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T17:47:47","slug":"overheard-by-donal-wheelock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/02\/09\/overheard-by-donal-wheelock\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Overheard&#8221; by Donal Wheelock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t care much for poetry\u2026\u201d<\/em> (overheard in a salon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This said by a woman praising Charlie,<br>a martyr by the sound of him, hearing\u2014<br>and here the whirring of a hair dryer<br>swallows the details of ebullient praise\u2014<br>the news\u2014no doubt an anecdote about<br>her college English prof, whose lack of patience<br>with opinions gained from no experience<br>made for harsh marginal appraisal\u2014<br>but this is overlaid and cynical conjecture.<br>Perhaps it had been Charlie, his love of limericks\u2014<br>the bawdy kind\u2014that led to this remark\u2014<br>men will be men (her tone consumed by chatter)<br>refusing to reveal her acquiescence<br>to the winking side of prurient flirtation.<br>\u2003<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>It took composer and college teacher Donald Wheelock forty years of writing formal poetry to reach the stage of submitting his favorites for publication. Formal poetry, once relegated to second fiddle in a career of writing chamber, vocal and orchestral music, has now demanded equal time. Indeed, it has taken over his life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t care much for poetry\u2026\u201d (overheard in a salon) This said by a woman praising Charlie,a martyr by the sound of him, hearing\u2014and here the whirring of a hair dryerswallows the details of ebullient praise\u2014the news\u2014no doubt an anecdote abouther college English prof, whose lack of patiencewith opinions gained from no experiencemade for harsh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/02\/09\/overheard-by-donal-wheelock\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-Sq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}