{"id":1725,"date":"2011-10-13T19:56:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2015-05-06T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T20:15:18","slug":"who-says-that-concrete-isnt-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/who-says-that-concrete-isnt-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem by Jim Lafond-Lewis."},"content":{"rendered":"

Every organization or loose association of people ought to have its poet laureate.<\/p>\n

I would like to be poet laureate of the Pervious Concrete Association.<\/p>\n

I would meet regularly with the members and the witch doctor.<\/p>\n

We would all feel safe and uplifted<\/p>\n

or grounded together.<\/p>\n

We would mingle in the lobby before meetings.<\/p>\n

I would dream enough for all of us,<\/p>\n

especially during discussions<\/p>\n

of the Maine Department of Transportation’s RFPs.<\/p>\n

I would draw attention to the sight and sound of ME DOT RFP<\/p>\n

and the doctor would conjure the rumble a small airplane would make as it<\/p>\n

rolled across a pervious runway in the rain.<\/p>\n

Where once it would have been grounded, bogged down in mud,<\/p>\n

my poetry will rise off the concrete and fly across Penobscot Bay!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To read more of Jim’s poems go to his page:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A Wrinkled Man – Un Hombre Arrugado<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every organization or loose association of people ought to have its poet laureate. I would like to be poet laureate of the Pervious Concrete Association. I would meet regularly with the members and the witch doctor. We would all feel safe and uplifted or grounded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5dEI1-rP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/procureusa.com\/producers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}