{"id":29263,"date":"2013-02-27T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29263"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:52:35","slug":"enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29263","title":{"rendered":"Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/poem.php?date=15623\" target=\"_blank\">Enlightenment<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poetry Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2012-10-09<\/p>\n<p>From <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=23366\" target=\"_blank\">Thrall<\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativewriting.emory.edu\/faculty\/trethewey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Trethewey<\/a>, Poet Laureate of the United States<\/p>\n<p>In the portrait of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Jefferson<\/a> that hangs<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monticello\" target=\"_blank\">Monticello<\/a>, he is rendered two-toned:<br \/>\nhis forehead white with illumination\u2014<\/p>\n<p>a lit bulb\u2014the rest of his face in shadow,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 darkened as if the artist meant to contrast<br \/>\nhis bright knowledge, its dark subtext.<\/p>\n<p>By 1805, when Jefferson sat for the portrait,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he was already linked to an affair<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Hemings\" target=\"_blank\">with his slave<\/a>. Against a backdrop, blue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire poem <a href=\"http:\/\/poems.com\/poem.php?date=15623\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlightenment Poetry Daily 2012-10-09 From Thrall by Natasha Trethewey, Poet Laureate of the United States In the portrait of Jefferson that hangs \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 at Monticello, he is rendered two-toned: his forehead white with illumination\u2014 a lit bulb\u2014the rest of his face in shadow, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 darkened as if the artist meant to contrast his bright knowledge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[1133,13799,477],"class_list":["post-29263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","tag-natasha-trethewey","tag-poetry-daily","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}