{"id":1848,"date":"2009-06-09T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/06\/09\/hear-walt-whitman-reading-his-poem-america\/"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:41:40","slug":"hear-walt-whitman-reading-his-poem-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/09\/hear-walt-whitman-reading-his-poem-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Walt Whitman Reading His Poem &#8216;America&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/433px-walt-whitman-brady-handy.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"258\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitmanarchive.org\/\"><i>The Walt Whitman Archive<\/i><\/a> has a 36-second recording taken from an old wax cylinder of what is thought to be Whitman himself reading four lines from his poem, <i>America<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitmanarchive.org\/multimedia\/index.html\">Listen to Walt Whitman reading <i>America<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the text of the poem:<\/p>\n<p><b>America<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,<br \/>All, all alike endear&#8217;d, grown, ungrown, young or old,<br \/>Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,<br \/>Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,<br \/>A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,<br \/>Chair&#8217;d in the adamant of Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Walt Whitman Archive has a 36-second recording taken from an old wax cylinder of what is thought to be Whitman himself reading four lines from his poem, America. Listen to Walt Whitman reading America Here&#8217;s the text of the poem: America Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear&#8217;d, grown, ungrown, young or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-walt-whitman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}