{"id":235,"date":"2010-01-28T16:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:39:39","slug":"here-no-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Here No Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4312675950\/\" title=\"IMG_1158 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4030\/4312675950_5b35dafd9a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4311942417\/\" title=\"IMG_1175 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4311942417_e5a686ca49.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4311943607\/\" title=\"IMG_1174 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4018\/4311943607_e68097dfa3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4311945065\/\" title=\"IMG_1199 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2781\/4311945065_b50d4f8db4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sgerald\/4312684422\/\" title=\"IMG_1219 by Sharon Gerald, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4005\/4312684422_6a3038a816.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_1219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Importance of Elsewhere<br \/>\nby Philip Larkin<\/p>\n<p>Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,<br \/>\nStrangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,<br \/>\nInsisting so on difference, made me welcome:<br \/>\nOnce that was recognised, we were in touch<\/p>\n<p>Their draughty streets, end-on to hills, the faint<br \/>\nArchaic smell of dockland, like a stable,<br \/>\nThe herring-hawker&#8217;s cry, dwindling, went<br \/>\nTo prove me separate, not unworkable.<\/p>\n<p>Living in England has no such excuse:<br \/>\nThese are my customs and establishments<br \/>\nIt would be much more serious to refuse.<br \/>\nHere no elsewhere underwrites my existence.<\/p>\n<p>**<em>In Hattiesburg I have no such excuse.  These are my customs and establishments.  It would be much more serious to refuse.  Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Importance of Elsewhere by Philip Larkin Lonely in Ireland,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}