{"id":19841,"date":"2025-07-08T01:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/?p=19841"},"modified":"2025-07-08T01:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T06:52:29","slug":"yes-defending-poetry-high-style-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/yes-defending-poetry-high-style-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, defending poetry, high style, etc.,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"but also summer evenings in a small town,\" class=\"wp-image-19842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">but also summer evenings in a small town,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"where gardens waft and cats sit quietly\" class=\"wp-image-19843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9163.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">where gardens waft and cats sit quietly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"on doorsteps, like Chinese philosophers. \u2014Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh\" class=\"wp-image-19844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9167.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">on doorsteps, like Chinese philosophers.<br\/><em>\u2014Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DSCF9161.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19845,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions\/19845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tom-lehr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}