{"id":389,"date":"2010-05-07T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-05-07T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:09:13","slug":"poetic-justice-voters-select-the-keats-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Poetic justice? Voters select the Keats option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up today to an inconclusive election result, it seems that after all the voters have been doing some wider reading than the leaders&#8217; choices of Blake (three votes) and Owen (one). A surprise declaration, then, for John Keats of the Negative Capability Party. As his manifesto says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact &amp; reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think he wrote that in 1817, long before even the 1832 Reform Act! Still, to quote a more demotic voice, &#8216;it ain&#8217;t over till it&#8217;s over&#8217;, so keep your poetry books ready for more turns, conceits and tragi-comic outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waking up today to an inconclusive election result, it seems that after all the voters have chosen Keats after all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,80],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-election","tag-keats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}