{"id":1634,"date":"2022-01-27T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:48:52","slug":"the-mower-by-philip-larkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2022\/01\/27\/the-mower-by-philip-larkin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mower (by Philip Larkin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/48423\/the-mower-56d229a740294\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/48423\/the-mower-56d229a740294<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(But why do we always,  <br>reflexively, <br>ritually,  <br>appropriate animal suffering <br>for solemn admonitions <br>about human suffering? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it\u2019s not tragic enough <br>on its own?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You may reply, <br>&#8220;Yes, <br>but why do you always <br>turn it in this direction?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe because most <br>keep turning it in the other\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/48423\/the-mower-56d229a740294 Yes. (But why do we always, reflexively, ritually, appropriate animal suffering for solemn admonitions about human suffering? Because it\u2019s not tragic enough on its own?) You may reply, &#8220;Yes, but why do you always turn it in this direction?&#8221; Maybe because most keep turning it in the other\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,7],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-uncategorised","category-verse","tag-collateral-damage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}