{"id":119,"date":"2018-07-10T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/?p=119"},"modified":"2018-08-04T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:30:40","slug":"william-stafford-with-kit-age-6-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/william-stafford-with-kit-age-6-at-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"William Stafford &#8220;With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/william-stafford-with-kit-age-6-at-the-beach\/stafford\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2187,1581\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"stafford\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford-1024x740.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford-1024x740.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-39\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/07\/stafford-768x555.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assemblage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/350fall1995cover.png\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">English 350 &#8220;Visible Rhetoric&#8221; Fall, 1995<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think William Stafford is a remarkable poet on many levels. Not just his poems or poetry, but the way he crafted a life and found balance between writing, family, teaching, and administration.  One of his strategies was to get up at four to write. Sadly I could never think that early in the morning. I used to do a Stafford impression during poetry readings. It was very bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblage: English 350 &#8220;Visible Rhetoric&#8221; Fall, 1995 I think William Stafford is a remarkable poet on many levels. Not just his poems or poetry, but the way he crafted a life and found balance between writing, family, teaching, and administration. One of his strategies was to get up at four to write. Sadly I could &#8230; <a title=\"William Stafford &#8220;With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/william-stafford-with-kit-age-6-at-the-beach\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about William Stafford &#8220;With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assemblage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pafo44-1V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimkalmbach.net\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}