{"id":17,"date":"2011-04-14T15:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-04-01T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-01T04:37:08","slug":"new-york-city-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/2011\/04\/14\/new-york-city-1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis  1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Amid the towering wrecks\r\n      of architects' aspirations\r\nThere is to see\r\n      weird, sullen desperations...\r\n\r\nOne is not swept-up by the myriad\r\n      multi-storied spires,\r\n      bereft of gargoyles,\r\nCrosses, and other invocations of\r\n      earlier penitents.\r\n\r\nDo these men have the same nightmares\r\n      as Michelangelo or Christopher Wren?\r\nMust they construct these denuded, angular visions\r\n      of hell's garish whore house palaces,\r\nLairs of beastly, distorted, stalking\r\narchitectural sin, born of\r\nprimordial art's design versus function schism? \r\n\r\nWhat gods do such architects seek to worship?\r\n      Who could listen to that Manhattan to Harlem\r\n      Screaming clashing jargon, and call it prayer!\r\n\r\nIn concrete canyons, asphalt rivers seer and scar,\r\nSculptured steel meets, mixes like sweating bodies\r\nin a boxing gym and plastic protoplasm scurries\r\n      at an ever quickening clip.\r\n\r\nCathedrals of conformity give rise to anonymity\r\nWhile numbers and their squares of seek infinity.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the towering wrecks of architects&#8217; aspirations There is to see weird, sullen desperations&#8230; One is not swept-up by the myriad multi-storied spires, bereft of gargoyles, Crosses, and other invocations of earlier penitents. Do these men have the same nightmares &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/2011\/04\/14\/new-york-city-1967\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"gallery","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1963-1977","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DZOG-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bullsullivan.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}