{"id":48004,"date":"2015-11-30T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48004"},"modified":"2015-11-30T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T23:12:48","slug":"poetry-is-dead-vs-the-death-penalty-for-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48004","title":{"rendered":"Poetry is dead vs the death penalty for poetry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; current affairs, target practice, and incarnation ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Ah.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ahraf-Fayadh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ahraf-Fayadh.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ahraf-Fayadh.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ahraf-Fayadh-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Palestinian poet and painter <strong>Ahraf Fayadh<\/strong> is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/29\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-poet-ashraf-fayadh-death-sentence\/index.html\">under a death sentence<\/a> in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mantegna-Sebastian-Louvre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mantegna-Sebastian-Louvre.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-48007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mantegna-Sebastian-Louvre.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Mantegna-Sebastian-Louvre-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears important to recognize the full <a href=\"http:\/\/mini-site.louvre.fr\/mantegna\/images\/section4\/zoom\/04_15.jpg\">human significance<\/a> of one&#8217;s target<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flaubert apparently <\/strong>pronounced poetry dead in his posthumous opus, <strong>Bouvard et P\u00e9cuchet<\/strong>, 1881, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/poetry-dead-does-anybody-really-care-137385\">Newsweek had noted the fact<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;filed under: News&#8221; &#8212; by 2003. Neither Flaubert nor Newsweek, however, was reckoning on the long-standing Arab enthusiasm for poetry, nicely illustrated to this day by the seriousness with which the authorities treat their poets.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/stag_target.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/stag_target.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"617\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/stag_target.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/stag_target-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and while we&#8217;re on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackals-lair.com\/targets_27.html\">targeting<\/a>.. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pisanello-Eustace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pisanello-Eustace.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pisanello-Eustace.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pisanello-Eustace-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>it may also be wise to recognize the full <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Vision_of_Saint_Eustace\">divine significance<\/a> of one&#8217;s target.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; current affairs, target practice, and incarnation ] . Ah. Palestinian poet and painter Ahraf Fayadh is currently under a death sentence in Saudi Arabia. It appears important to recognize the full human significance of one&#8217;s target ** Flaubert apparently pronounced poetry dead in his posthumous opus, Bouvard et P\u00e9cuchet, 1881, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,526,309,627,52,790,139,1021,741,786,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-charles-cameron","category-criminals","category-doublequotes","category-france","category-law-enforcement","category-media","category-palestine","category-poetry","category-saudi-arabia","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48004"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48018,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48004\/revisions\/48018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}