{"id":6283,"date":"2024-11-25T18:55:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2024-11-25T18:55:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T01:55:07","slug":"prose-vs-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/11\/25\/prose-vs-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Prose Vs Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I watched a sentence emerge the other day at the end of a series of ambivalent decisions. The pressure of decision-making, the tense inner conversation writers conduct when writing, may be more felt than conscious, but it is nonetheless real. Even as I am writing these very words I am debating with myself whether these are the very words I should be writing. Decisions don\u2019t make themselves. Do I use a dash here \u2013 or nothing? And what about an adjective for color or to add nuance? One misplaced brick can bring the whole thing down. Poetry flourishes on the ruins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good <\/p>\n<p>Howie is a professor emeritus at SUNY New Paltz whose newest poetry book, The Dark, is available from Sacred Parasite, a Berlin-based publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a sentence emerge the other day at the end of a series of ambivalent decisions. The pressure of decision-making, the tense inner conversation writers conduct when writing, may be more felt than conscious, but it is nonetheless real. Even as I am writing these very words I am debating with myself whether these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13039,6935,794,13038,13035,5095,41,7349,13036,2907,6322,4731,6878,7295,1320,7645,6970,37,13037,2293],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-adjective","tag-brick","tag-color","tag-dash","tag-decision-making","tag-decisions","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-inner-conversation","tag-nothing","tag-nuance","tag-poetry","tag-pressure","tag-prose","tag-ruins","tag-sentence","tag-series","tag-words","tag-writers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6284,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}