{"id":3743,"date":"2017-05-10T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2017-05-04T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T07:18:33","slug":"rain-taxi-talks-with-red-pine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"Rain Taxi Talks with Red Pine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Pine (Bill Porter) speaks with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raintaxi.com\/rain-taxi-talks-with-red-pine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rain Taxi<\/em> <\/a>editor Eric Lorberer and author James Lenfestey about poetry, translation, and how he got his name.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0Vsag3-ERo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Pine (Bill Porter) speaks with Rain Taxi editor Eric Lorberer and author James Lenfestey about poetry, translation, and how he got his name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[1355,1832,1833,375],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Yn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2909,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2909","url_meta":{"origin":3743,"position":0},"title":"Red Pine \/ Bill Porter Reviewed in Rain Taxi","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 11, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Justin Wadland reviews The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse, translated by Red Pine (Copper Canyon) and Yellow River Odyssey by Bill Porter (Chin Music) for Rain Taxi (author Bill Porter's nom de guerre as translator is Red Pine). 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