{"id":5856,"date":"2014-03-04T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T10:39:50","slug":"reading-wednesday-by-marvin-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/5856-reading-wednesday-by-marvin-bell.html","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#8220;Wednesday&#8221; by Marvin Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;And it was at that age&#8230; poetry arrived \/ in search of me&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">-Pablo Neruda, &#8220;Poetry&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Poems can represent a turning point. Reading Marvin Bell&#8217;s &#8220;Wednesday&#8221; was one such moment for me. I wrote about what it means to me, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyliterature.com\/2014\/03\/04\/the-poem-robert-peake-on-marvin-bells-wednesday\/\">why it really matters<\/a>, for the Prague-based online journal B O D Y. I consider it the anthem of every working poet, and it was to this anthem that I marched forward through grief, back into poetry, back into life.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyliterature.com\/2014\/03\/04\/the-poem-robert-peake-on-marvin-bells-wednesday\/\">THE POEM: Robert Peake on Marvin Bell&#8217;s &#8220;Wednesday&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/86405877&#8243; params=&#8221;color=ff6600&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_artwork=true&#8221; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<noframes><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/peakepoetics\/wednesday\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to \"Wednesday\" by Marvin Bell read aloud.<\/a><\/noframes><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And it was at that age&#8230; poetry arrived \/ in search of me&#8221; -Pablo Neruda, &#8220;Poetry&#8221; Poems can represent a turning point. Reading Marvin Bell&#8217;s &#8220;Wednesday&#8221; was one such moment for me. I wrote about what it means to me, and why it really matters, for the Prague-based online journal B O D Y. I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/5856-reading-wednesday-by-marvin-bell.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading &#8220;Wednesday&#8221; by Marvin Bell<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,1268,5,8],"tags":[896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}