{"id":253696,"date":"2007-08-02T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/02\/charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:56","slug":"charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/02\/charles-simic-to-be-named-poet-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Simic to be named poet laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poet.php\/prmPID\/27\">Charles Simic<\/a>, two-time winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/page.php\/prmID\/270\"><span class=\"caps\">PEN<\/span> Translation Award<\/a>, will be named U.S. poet laureate by Congress today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United States at 16. He started writing poetry in English only a few years after learning the language and has published more than 20 volumes of poetry, as well as essay collections, translations and a memoir.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Simic, two-time winner of the PEN Translation Award, will be named U.S. poet laureate by Congress today: Mr. Simic, 69, was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and immigrated to the United States at 16. He started writing poetry in English only a few years after learning the language and has published more than 20 volumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[2906,2136],"class_list":["post-253696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-charles-simic","tag-ejvl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363846,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253696\/revisions\/363846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}