
{"id":27213,"date":"2012-08-02T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=27213"},"modified":"2012-08-02T10:21:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T14:21:40","slug":"letter-beauty-is-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/08\/02\/letter-beauty-is-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Beauty is truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are often stunned by the connection of the past with the present \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and our future. In a very short life \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1795 to 1821 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c John Keats wrote a piece of verse that became a singular part of the English heritage: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beauty is truth, truth beauty \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that is all ye know \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and all ye need to know.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d This popped up as we were recently admonished by Mrs. Romney, namely, when she proclaimed that in the matter of personal finances, she and her husband (name slips my mind) have given \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all you people need to know.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In this case neither \u00e2\u20ac\u0153beauty\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nor \u00e2\u20ac\u0153truth\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were involved, merely the machinations of a rich and never-mind-the-law family that, in turn, wants to lead our country! But she missed Keat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s admonition, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Beauty is truth, truth beauty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Because her statement had neither truth nor beauty, we admonish her to read Keat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s carefully, and not to confuse \u00e2\u20ac\u0153all ye need to know\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with her crass reply! Keats, gone these many years, is still the wise instructor who, along with a Democratic victory in Novemeber, will put aside this uninformed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Call of the Wild,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with the help of Keatsian validity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not to mention Jack London! <\/p>\n<p>William Sommers<br \/>\n<em>Pittsboro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are often stunned by the connection of the past with the present \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and our future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27214,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27213\/revisions\/27214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}