{"id":1802,"date":"2017-11-18T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2018-01-02T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T04:12:11","slug":"lessons-giovanna-madonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/archives\/1802","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Giovanna Madonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The whole business was sincere enough, but a stupid pathological mirage, a magical orange grove in a nightmare. I feel like a son of a bitch.&#8221; -Robert Lowell <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Foreign knuckles and wide chest,<br \/>\nYou hug me like a dovecote nests a dove.<br \/>\nBut what am I to think of all this love,<br \/>\nWhen the words of the poet use the fire gentle girl, the wisp of watery flame, to craft a most perfect work of prose &#8211;<br \/>\nHe resorts to clich\u00e9, the sign of utter infatuation, words like &#8220;forever,&#8221; &#8220;passion,&#8221; and &#8220;we,&#8221;<br \/>\nThen begs her pardon on his knee,<br \/>\nAbandons the praise of Italian men<br \/>\nTo resume his Germans of the pen.<br \/>\nNot Rossini now but plaid old Rilke,<br \/>\nLife, green moments, then red silk.<br \/>\nHow can I hope for a pure man&#8217;s heart?<br \/>\nAll is sacrificed by art.<br \/>\nNo. No! A woman can&#8217;t know!<br \/>\nA virgin&#8217;s kiss won&#8217;t bleach a crow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The whole business was sincere enough, but a stupid pathological mirage, a magical orange grove in a nightmare. I feel like a son of a bitch.&#8221; -Robert Lowell Foreign knuckles and wide chest, You hug me like a dovecote nests a dove. But what am I to think of all this love, When the words&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/IMG_20171228_212721_690.jpg?fit=2843%2C2928&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WcVY-t4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rasmusen.org\/special\/ameliajane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}