{"id":1038,"date":"2008-12-07T03:57:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T08:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2018-08-10T18:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T22:29:38","slug":"17000-%c2%a0%c2%a0-4-walt-whitman-leaves-of-grass-children-of-adam-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"17000.&nbsp;[4] (Walt Whitman) Leaves of Grass: Children of Adam [verse]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>If any\u00adthing is sacred the human body is sacred&nbsp;<\/em>- Whit\u00adman<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8152\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8152\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/08-12-07-READ-17000.-4-Walt-Whitman-Leaves-of-Grass-Children-of-Adam-verse.jpg\" alt=\"08-12-07 READ 17000. [4] (Walt Whitman) Leaves of Grass Children of Adam [verse]\" width=\"335\" height=\"222\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In today\u2019s prud\u00adish, pruri\u00adent and bil\u00adious North Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture, Walt Whit\u00adman is as sub\u00adver\u00adsive as he was in the 19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. In \u201cI Sing the Body Elec\u00adtric\u201d, prob\u00ada\u00adbly the best poem in the <em>Chil\u00addren of Adam<\/em> sec\u00adtion of <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em>, he pro\u00adclaimed his per\u00adson\u00adal man\u00adi\u00adfesto: look at the bod\u00adies of human beings, if you want to see the divine, the sacred, and moral truth. The rant\u00adi\u00adng, per\u00adverse ped\u00addlers of pho\u00adny \u201cval\u00adues\u201d \u2014 the pul\u00adpit screech\u00aders and Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive haters of life \u2014 know noth\u00ading of truth, beau\u00adty, or moral\u00adi\u00adty. There is more moral\u00adi\u00adty in a sin\u00adgle line of <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em> than in a mil\u00adlion ser\u00admons of church\u00adly bullshit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If any\u00adthing is sacred the human body is sacred&nbsp;\u2014 Whit\u00adman In today\u2019s prud\u00adish, pruri\u00adent and bil\u00adious North Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture, Walt Whit\u00adman is as sub\u00adver\u00adsive as he was in the 19th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. In \u201cI Sing the Body Elec\u00adtric\u201d, prob\u00ada\u00adbly the&nbsp;best&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1038\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bs-reading-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8153,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/8153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}