{"id":329,"date":"2009-06-01T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T19:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-08-05T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:41:13","slug":"on-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/06\/on-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"On Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Beauty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, we could not itemize the list<br \/>\nof sins they can&#8217;t forgive us.<br \/>\nThe beautiful don&#8217;t lack the wound.<br \/>\nIt is always beginning to snow.<\/p>\n<p>Of sins they can&#8217;t forgive us<br \/>\nspeech is beautifully useless.<br \/>\nIt is always beginning to snow.<br \/>\nThe beautiful know this.<\/p>\n<p>Speech is beautifully useless.<br \/>\nThey <em>are<\/em> the damned.<br \/>\nThe beautiful know this.<br \/>\nThey stand around unnatural as statuary.<\/p>\n<p><em>They<\/em> are the damned<br \/>\nand so their sadness is perfect,<br \/>\ndelicate as an egg placed in your palm.<br \/>\nHard, it is decorated with their face<\/p>\n<p>and so their sadness is perfect.<br \/>\nThe beautiful don&#8217;t lack the wound.<br \/>\nHard, it is decorated with their face.<br \/>\nNo, we could not itemize the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><em>Cape Cod, May 1974<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nick Laird (via <em>On Beauty<\/em> by Zadie Smith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Beauty No, we could not itemize the list of sins they can&#8217;t forgive us. The beautiful don&#8217;t lack the wound. It is always beginning to snow. Of sins they can&#8217;t forgive us speech is beautifully useless. It is always beginning to snow. The beautiful know this. Speech is beautifully useless. They are the damned. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/06\/on-beauty\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[6,4],"tags":[91,530,528],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-reading","tag-beauty","tag-poetry","tag-reading","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}