{"id":127,"date":"2016-10-11T21:21:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nethergatewriters.org\/?p=127"},"modified":"2021-03-12T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:50:18","slug":"127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Giving the Gifts that Keep on Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Roddie McKenzie gives us another poem about poetry, amongst other things&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Giving the Gifts that Keep on Giving<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teaching,<br \/>\na giving that rewards twice.<br \/>\nThey gain the knowledge,<br \/>\nwhich of course, is power.<\/p>\n<p>And then, in scaffolding the dull thick, facts<br \/>\ninto a cathedral,<br \/>\nI pause and appreciate the marvel<br \/>\nOf how nature works.<\/p>\n<p>Poetry too, is about making meaning.<br \/>\nThe polishing of a mirror that distorts just enough<br \/>\nto reflect something for<br \/>\neveryman.<\/p>\n<p>That crystalisation of random facts into diamond appreciation,<br \/>\nis winning the brightest gold watch,<br \/>\n(after of course, getting the buggers to behave).<br \/>\nPoetry is a bit like that too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roddie McKenzie 9\/2\/2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roddie McKenzie gives us another poem about poetry, amongst other things&#8230; Giving the Gifts that Keep on Giving Teaching, a giving that rewards twice. They gain the knowledge, which of course, is power. And then, in scaffolding the dull thick, facts into a cathedral, I pause and appreciate the marvel Of how nature works. Poetry&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/?p=127\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giving the Gifts that Keep on Giving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nethergatewriters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}