{"id":330,"date":"2006-02-08T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-02-08T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T15:24:45","slug":"wisdom-from-e-e-cummings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wisdom-from-e-e-cummings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom from e e cummings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/1\/147755_58c09fed15_t.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"e e cummings\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674440102\/ref=sr_11_1\/104-6613032-2915165?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">i six nonlectures<\/a><\/em> (1953):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLet me cordially warn you, at the opening of these socalled lectures, that I haven&#8217;t the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. Lecturing is presumably a form of teaching; and presumably a teacher is somebody who knows. I never did, and still don&#8217;t, know. What has always fascinated me is not teaching, but learning; and I assure you that if the acceptance of a Charles Eliot Norton professorship hadn&#8217;t rapidly entangled itself with the expectation of learning a very great deal, I should now be somewhere else. Let me also assure you that I feel extremely glad to be here; and that I heartily hope you won&#8217;t feel extremely sorry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From i six nonlectures (1953): Let me cordially warn you, at the opening of these socalled lectures, that I haven&#8217;t the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. Lecturing is presumably a form of teaching; and presumably a teacher is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wisdom-from-e-e-cummings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-5k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}