{"id":61796,"date":"2015-05-16T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61796"},"modified":"2015-05-15T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:34:42","slug":"opls-poetry-hour-tackles-spoon-river-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61796","title":{"rendered":"OPL\u2019s Poetry Hour tackles \u2018Spoon River\u2019 May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-61797\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg\" alt=\"oneida-public-library\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/oneida-public-library-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Edgar Lee Masters\u2019 small-town epic \u201cSpoon River Anthology\u201d is the subject of discussion in the Poetry Hour at Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Thursday May 21 at\u00a07 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion leader, OPL Assistant Director Tom Murray, will select representative poems from the collection of over 200 lyrical poems in the anthology, each one an individual portrait, often told in the first-person, of the dead \u201csleeping on the hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters\u2019 sad, funny and bitter portraits of individual lives in a small Midwestern town at the turn of the century was a commercial and critical success that influenced later chroniclers of the American small town like Sinclair Lewis and William Faulkner.<\/p>\n<p>The program is free and open to all. Refreshments will be shared.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the Oneida Library at\u00a0315-363-3050.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) Edgar Lee Masters\u2019 small-town epic \u201cSpoon River Anthology\u201d is the subject of discussion in the Poetry Hour at Oneida Public Library on\u00a0Thursday May 21 at\u00a07 p.m. The discussion leader, OPL Assistant Director Tom Murray, will select representative poems from the collection of over 200 lyrical poems in the anthology, each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}