{"id":205,"date":"2016-06-27T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T00:25:54","slug":"a-word-we-conventionally-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/a-word-we-conventionally-use\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word We Conventionally Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How is the great distinguished from the good? One possible component has to do with communal scale: Ezra Pound\u2019s idea of the epic as a poem containing history, the idea of tragedy as suffering to benefit a community. But some poems about one person\u2019s feelings feel \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is the great distinguished from the good? One possible component has to do with communal scale: Ezra Pound\u2019s idea of the epic as a poem containing history, the idea of tragedy as suffering to benefit a community. But some poems about one person\u2019s feelings feel \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/artofpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}