{"id":446,"date":"2006-07-22T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-07-22T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T00:36:16","slug":"paul-giamatti-and-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/07\/22\/paul-giamatti-and-walt-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Giamatti and Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve had a great deal of respect for Paul Giamatti since <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.foxsearchlight.com\/sideways\/\" title=\"Sideways\">Sideways<\/a>, particularly, and thought he did a bang-up job as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/2006\/07\/20\/the-amazing-screw-on-head\/\" title=\"The Amazing Screw-On Head\">Screw-On Head<\/a>.&nbsp; Today I ran across his reading of Walt Whitman&#39;s &quot;A Noiseless Patient Spider&quot;, which is a beautiful poem and wonderfully read.&nbsp; (<a href=\"http:\/\/poetryfoundation.org\/audio\/PoetryFoundation.orgPodcast.06.22.06.mp3\" title=\"Poetry Foundation\">download<\/a>  from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/features\/audio.html#0622\" title=\"Poetry Foundation\">PoetryFoundation.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><font>A noiseless patient spider,<br \/> I mark&#39;d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,<br \/> Mark&#39;d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,<br \/> It launch&#39;d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,<br \/> Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.<\/p>\n<p> And you O my soul where you stand,<br \/> Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,<br \/> Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,<br \/> Till the bridge you will need be form&#39;d, till the ductile anchor hold,<br \/> Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.<\/font><\/em><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/> -Walt Whitman <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve had a great deal of respect for Paul Giamatti since Sideways, particularly, and thought he did a bang-up job as Screw-On Head.&nbsp; Today I ran across his reading of Walt Whitman&#39;s &quot;A Noiseless Patient Spider&quot;, which is a beautiful poem and wonderfully read.&nbsp; (download from PoetryFoundation.org) A noiseless patient spider, I mark&#39;d where on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}