{"id":751,"date":"2023-08-12T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2024-10-11T04:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:28:44","slug":"dr-cinnamon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Cinnamon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I\u2014impassioned by art, philosophy\u2014<br>ask for help.<br><br>\u201cWould you piece this together for me?<br>Some things I see, but some I don\u2019t.<br>All I want to do is <em>know<\/em>.\"<br><br>I feel the fire burn within as <br>wonder rises and spins<br>through my little stretching mind.<br><br>Then I melt as I look up.<br>Laughter? A sneer?<br><br><em>Oh my goodness <\/em><br><em>what am I doing here?<\/em><br><br>\u201cNo,\" says professor,<br>\"You can\u2019t do that.<br>It does not fit within this craft, that is,<br>what I am getting at in class.\"<br><br>\u201cWhat can I do?\u201d I ask.<br><br>Professor stops,<br>\u201cI assume you jest?<br>It's plain for all to see.\u201d<br><br>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s not for me.\u201d<br><br>\u201cThen you must read and read<br>and read, and maybe then <br>you\u2019ll understand what<br>your peers already can.\u201d<br><br>I rise, thank professor for the time,<br>go, shut off my mind, find <br>a corner and cry.<br><br>I want nothing to do with such a craft.<br><em>You criticize, you pull apart,<br>but all I want is <br>to know and appreciate the art. <\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">2 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2014impassioned by art, philosophy\u2014ask for help.\u201cWould you piece this together for me?Some things I see, but some I don\u2019t.All I want to do is know.&#8221;I feel the fire burn within as wonder rises and spinsthrough my little stretching mind.Then I melt as I look up.Laughter? A sneer?Oh my goodness what am I doing here?\u201cNo,&#8221; says&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[778,774,781,779,773,780,775,92,776,782,777],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-art","tag-bad-professor","tag-cruel","tag-education","tag-intellectual-curiosity","tag-mean","tag-mean-teacher","tag-philosophy","tag-professor","tag-self-doubt","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}