{"id":2111,"date":"2011-09-14T23:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/wordpress\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:21:18","slug":"daniel-j-danielson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/daniel-j-danielson\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel J. Danielson"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nAn old-time, small-town hardcore \"con\"\r\npolite enough to jigger mint juleps in tinking silver cups\r\nrubbed smooth by lips ribbed smooth\r\nwith talking.  Politics, aesthetics, jeremiads,\r\nhistory's candid tangle of catastrophes\r\n--any subject that nights ripen and split\r\nenough to show the sense of meaning \r\nat the snapping seams;  thought stretched taut\r\nuntil articulation sang.  O the million nights\r\nchattered ruefully through to human truth!\r\nRhythm's doubled thrubs send the heart-beacon out\r\nbeneath the boards, like your troubled and beloved Poe\r\nmoaning lonely for his Annabelle Lee, lovely\r\nideal resurrected from the dead real.\r\n\r\nYour life-plot's coiled as Rosencrantz',\r\na labyrinthine mind of steel and twine\r\nfollowing each God-doled bread-crumb clue\r\nto God's appointed apotheosis;\r\nintent as a atheist pimping out a principle.\r\nYou loiter with stories forever unfinished,\r\nonce started, not knowing \"how way leads on to way.\"\r\nEach enunciated principle's broadened\r\nwith tributary amendments, altering\r\nprecursor and course upon reconsideration;\r\nRabelaisian babble nipped and tucked tidy\r\nby a laser-guided philosophy.\r\n\r\nLong ago in your yeoman youth you started\r\ndreaming past the dragon's hiss, the dragon's tooth,\r\nto inner virtue's unvarying, vibrant truth.\r\nNow an earnest father gone haggard at the world's lies--\r\nyou sit a spastic Little Hamnu down to talk--\r\nand finish grinning and whistling in the dark,\r\nstuck, like Coleridge with his quaint Constancy,\r\nor an aim-awry Orion facing West,\r\nstark as a marker in the stars' fixed rigging.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old-time, small-town hardcore &#8220;con&#8221; polite enough to jigger mint juleps in tinking silver cups rubbed smooth by lips ribbed smooth with talking. Politics, aesthetics, jeremiads, history&#8217;s candid tangle of catastrophes &#8211;any subject that nights ripen and split enough to show the sense of meaning at the snapping seams; thought stretched taut until articulation sang. <a href='https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/daniel-j-danielson\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,265],"tags":[1541,1545,1544,1548,1546,1547,1543],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-champagne","category-character-poems","tag-annabelle-lee","tag-bread-crumb","tag-mint-juleps","tag-old-time","tag-silver-cups","tag-talking-politics","tag-west-stark","category-1495-id","category-265-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7941,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/7941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}