{"id":836,"date":"2011-01-30T06:38:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T06:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=836"},"modified":"2014-06-24T07:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:58:46","slug":"chinese-poet-among-barbarians-by-louis-untermeyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/chinese-poet-among-barbarians-by-louis-untermeyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Poet Among Barbarians by Louis Untermeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-418 lazyload\" title=\"LouisUntermeyer\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/LouisUntermeyer.jpg 458w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 229px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 229\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Untermeyer by George Grantham Bain (Library of Congress)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chinese Poet Among Barbarians<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Louis Untermeyer<\/p>\n<p>The rain drives, drives endlessly,<\/p>\n<p>Heavy threads of rain;<br \/>\nThe wind beats at the shutters,<br \/>\nThe surf drums on the shore;<br \/>\nDrunken telegraph poles lean sideways;<br \/>\nDank summer cottages gloom hopelessly;<br \/>\nBleak factory-chimneys are etched on the filmy distance,<br \/>\nTepid with rain.<br \/>\nIt seems I have lived for a hundred years<br \/>\nAmong these things;<br \/>\nAnd it is useless for me now to make complaint against them.<br \/>\nFor I know I shall never escape from this dull barbarian country,<br \/>\nWhere there is none now left to lift a cool jade winecup,<br \/>\nOr share with me a single human thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Poet Among Barbarians by Louis Untermeyer The rain drives, drives endlessly, Heavy threads of rain; The wind beats at the shutters, The surf drums on the shore; Drunken telegraph poles lean sideways; Dank summer cottages gloom hopelessly; Bleak factory-chimneys are etched on the filmy distance, Tepid with rain. It seems I have lived for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1900s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}