{"id":1012,"date":"2013-09-30T14:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2013-09-27T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T18:48:12","slug":"charles-bukowski-style-is-the-answer-to-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/1012\/poems\/charles-bukowski-style-is-the-answer-to-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bukowski: Style is the answer to everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Style is the answer to everything.<br \/>\nA fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing<br \/>\nTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it<br \/>\nTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art<\/p>\n<p>Bullfighting can be an art<br \/>\nBoxing can be an art<br \/>\nLoving can be an art<br \/>\nOpening a can of sardines can be an art<\/p>\n<p>Not many have style<br \/>\nNot many can keep style<br \/>\nI have seen dogs with more style than men,<br \/>\nalthough not many dogs have style.<br \/>\nCats have it with abundance.<\/p>\n<p>When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,<br \/>\nthat was style.<br \/>\nOr sometimes people give you style<br \/>\nJoan of Arc had style<br \/>\nJohn the Baptist<br \/>\nJesus<br \/>\nSocrates<br \/>\nCaesar<br \/>\nGarc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n<p>I have met men in jail with style.<br \/>\nI have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.<br \/>\nStyle is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.<br \/>\nSix herons standing quietly in a pool of water,<br \/>\nor you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2013\/1012\/poems\/charles-bukowski-style-is-the-answer-to-everything\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-on-attitude","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}