{"id":91670,"date":"2017-05-29T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=91670"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:26:08","slug":"the-idea-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/05\/the-idea-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idea of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has its attractions,<br \/>\nchiefly visual: all those<\/p>\n<p>shapes and lines, hunks<br \/>\nof color and light (the way<\/p>\n<p>the gold light falls across<br \/>\nthe lawn in early summer,<\/p>\n<p>the iridescent blue floating<br \/>\non the lake at sunset),<\/p>\n<p>and being alive seems<br \/>\nto be a necessity if you want<\/p>\n<p>to sit in the sun or rub your<br \/>\ntoes in the sand at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>You need to be breathing<br \/>\nin order to eat paella and<\/p>\n<p>drink sangria, and making love<br \/>\nis quite impossible without<\/p>\n<p>a body, unless you are one<br \/>\nof those, given &#8211; like gold &#8211;<br \/>\nto spin in airy thinness forever.<br \/>\n_______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>From<\/em> Modern Love &amp; Other Myths. \u00a9 <em>Red Dragonfly Press, 2015<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joyce-sutphen.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-91671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joyce-sutphen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><em>Joyce Sutphen grew up on a farm in Minnesota. She earned a PhD in Renaissance drama from the University of Minnesota. Her first collection of poems, <\/em>Straight Out of View<em> (1995), won the Barnard Women\u2019s Poets Prize. Subsequent collections include <\/em>Coming Back to the Body <em>(2000), a Minnesota Book Award finalist,<\/em> Naming the Stars<em> (2004), winner of the Minnesota Book Award, and <\/em>First Words <em>(2010). She has received a McKnight Artist Fellowship and a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and was named Minnesota&#8217;s Poet Laureate in 2011. (<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems-and-poets\/poets\/detail\/joyce-sutphen\" >Poetry Foundation<\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has its attractions,<br \/>\nchiefly visual: all those<br \/>\nshapes and lines, hunks<br \/>\nof color and light (the way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}