{"id":10303,"date":"2026-09-02T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10303"},"modified":"2026-09-05T06:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:52:43","slug":"things-in-nature-merely-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"Things in Nature Merely Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reading this on a Wednesday night. She pointed me towards two poems: <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/poetry\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/poetry\">Poetry, by Marianne Moore <\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/not-ideas-about-thing-thing-itself\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/not-ideas-about-thing-thing-itself\">Not Ideas About the Thing, But the Thing Itself, by Wallace Stevens <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t quite know what to say about this book other than I couldn&#8217;t stop reading it. <br><br>Li, Yiyun. <em>Things in Nature Merely Grow<\/em>. (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2025.)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this on a Wednesday night. She pointed me towards two poems: Poetry, by Marianne Moore Not Ideas About the Thing, But the Thing Itself, by Wallace Stevens I don&#8217;t quite know what to say about this book other than I couldn&#8217;t stop reading it. Li, Yiyun. Things in Nature Merely Grow. (New York: Farrar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=10303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things in Nature Merely Grow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-2Gb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10304,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions\/10304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}