{"id":2900,"date":"2014-06-23T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/just-the-start\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T12:30:09","slug":"just-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/just-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Just The Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the nation&#39;s next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On whether his sources of inspiration have changed over the decades<\/strong>:<br \/><em>Not really. It&#39;s always been the idea of landscape that&#39;s around me, that I look at; the idea of the music of language; and then the idea of God, or of that spiritual mystery that we doggedly follow, some of us, all of our days, and which we won&#39;t find the answer to until it&#39;s too late \u2014 or maybe it&#39;s not too late. Maybe it&#39;s just the start, I don&#39;t know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"%20http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/12\/321383934\/new-poet-laureate-the-meaning-has-always-stayed-the-same\" target=\"_self\">(Thanks, NPR)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a511d33105970c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3069\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a511d33105970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b01a511d33105970c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"3069\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the nation&#39;s next poet laureate will be Charles Wright, a retired professor at the University of Virginia. On whether his sources of inspiration have changed over the decades:Not really. It&#39;s always been the idea of landscape that&#39;s around me, that I look at; the idea of the music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}