{"id":391,"date":"2017-09-27T14:40:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=391"},"modified":"2017-09-27T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:40:43","slug":"censorship-and-the-poet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/09\/27\/censorship-and-the-poet\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship and the Poet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel as if censorship is both a pro and a con. In whatever you do, you are trying to get your point across, and sometimes you cannot do that for whatever reason. It may be that the topic is controversial or it may trigger people. As a poet, my point may be proved by a lot of imagery, or hard facts. I can conjure up an image of whatever I desire in whoever&#8217;s mind. There are a lot of sensitive people in this world and for that reason, we are asked to &#8220;tone it down&#8221;. Now I can only ask, why am I, a poet, told to lessen the sense of MY medium. I truly feel that if you are that sensitive, don&#8217;t attend, read, ever participate in whatever is happening. But again, I see censorship as a pro, more so, it is a challenge. When you are confined within four walls, it will drive you to madness, which will become creativity. When you are not allowed to do one thing, you do others. So with censorship, you will find loopholes and crafty ways to do what you do best. \u00a0You will be forced to use your wit. Triggering scenarios in literary pieces are a big reason censorship is used, but <em>trigger warnings\u00a0<\/em>can combat that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel as if censorship is both a pro and a con. In whatever you do, you are trying to get your point across, and sometimes you cannot do that for whatever reason. It may be that the topic is controversial or it may trigger people. As a poet, my point may be proved by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2017\/09\/27\/censorship-and-the-poet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Censorship and the Poet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}