{"id":1319,"date":"2008-07-27T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2008-07-27T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T17:59:00","slug":"poet-laureates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/poet-laureates\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Laureates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">While we wait in the UK to find out who will become the next Poet Laureate \u2013 the betting is on Simon Armitage or Carol Ann Duffy or Roger McGough \u2013 here&#39;s a reading and interview with Kay Ryan, who has just been appointed to the laureateship in the US. The US appoint a new laureate on an annual basis \u2013 in the UK it used to be for life (Alfred, Lord Tennyson held the post for 46 years) however the current Poet Laureate Andrew Motion accepted the post in 1999 for a ten year term.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eFCP5dCfynI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eFCP5dCfynI&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we wait in the UK to find out who will become the next Poet Laureate \u2013 the betting is on Simon Armitage or Carol Ann Duffy or Roger McGough \u2013 here&#39;s a reading and interview with Kay Ryan, who has just been appointed to the laureateship in the US. The US appoint a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}