{"id":1877,"date":"2012-12-04T12:47:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2012-12-04T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T16:54:05","slug":"poem-marginalia-by-billy-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2012\/12\/04\/poem-marginalia-by-billy-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem &#8216;Marginalia&#8217; by Billy Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the new page on the Core blog, Marginalia, we present a poem on the topic of the marginal note itself. The American poet illustrates its variation and beauty. This sample may be very relevant to Core students:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Students are more modest<br \/>\nneeding to leave only their splayed footprints<br \/>\nalong the shore of the page.<br \/>\nOne scrawls &#8220;Metaphor&#8221; next to a stanza of Eliot&#8217;s.<br \/>\nAnother notes the presence of &#8220;Irony&#8221;<br \/>\nfifty times outside the paragraphs of A Modest Proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The full poem can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/UmgSMV\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/UmgSMV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the new page on the Core blog, Marginalia, we present a poem on the topic of the marginal note itself. The American poet illustrates its variation and beauty. This sample may be very relevant to Core students: Students are more modest needing to leave only their splayed footprints along the shore of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[244,37363],"tags":[37368,37370,581,3471,3830],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}