{"id":2735,"date":"2005-08-04T18:43:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-04T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/08\/04\/selecting-a-reader-by-ted-kooser\/"},"modified":"2005-08-04T18:43:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-04T17:43:57","slug":"selecting-a-reader-by-ted-kooser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/selecting-a-reader-by-ted-kooser\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting a Reader &#8211; by Ted Kooser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>First, I would have her be beautiful,<br \/>\nand walking carefully up on my poetry<br \/>\nat the loneliest moment of an afternoon,<br \/>\nher hair still damp at the neck<br \/>\nfrom washing it. She should be wearing<br \/>\na raincoat, an old one, dirty<br \/>\nfrom not having money enough for the cleaners.<br \/>\nShe will take out her glasses, and there<br \/>\nin the bookstore, she will thumb<br \/>\nover my poems, then put the book back<br \/>\nup on its shelf. She will say to herself,<br \/>\n&#8220;For that kind of money, I can get<br \/>\nmy raincoat cleaned.&#8221; And she will. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>From a poetry book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;tag=yummywakame-20&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/0822953137\/qid=1123177296\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1?v=glance{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}26s=books{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62}26n=507846\"><strong>Sure Signs<\/strong><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=yummywakame-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> &#8211; found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightygirl.net\/\" rel=\"external\">MightyGirl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}