{"id":18555,"date":"2011-02-24T22:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18555\/heroes-walt-whitman\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T22:10:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:10:18","slug":"heroes-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18555\/heroes-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heroes &#8211; Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young man and a want-to-be poet, Walt Whitman was my patron saint and Leaves of Grass my Bible.\u00a0 I really like his use of free verse and his praising as heroic the common man, not as ignorant masses, but as courageous men and women facing challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a young man and a want-to-be poet, Walt Whitman was my patron saint and Leaves of Grass my Bible.\u00a0 I really like his use of free verse and his praising as heroic the common man, not as ignorant masses, but as courageous men and women facing challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}