{"id":45682,"date":"2023-07-19T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/19\/no-10-turned-down-larkin-auden-and-other-poets-for-laureate-job\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T00:57:14","slug":"no-10-turned-down-larkin-auden-and-other-poets-for-laureate-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=45682","title":{"rendered":"No 10 turned down Larkin, Auden and other poets for laureate job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">As the months passed, more names were put forward. Some nominated themselves. Allen Ginsberg proposed the singer Donovan, just 21, whose work &#8220;Sunshine Superman&#8221; and &#8220;Mellow Yellow&#8221; had topped the charts. In August, Ginsberg sent a hand drawn &#8220;flower card&#8221; to Number 10 with the words &#8220;Donovan for Laureate&#8221;.  Officials did not respond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-66224984?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As the months passed, more names were put forward. Some nominated themselves. Allen Ginsberg proposed the singer Donovan, just 21, whose work &#8220;Sunshine Superman&#8221; and &#8220;Mellow Yellow&#8221; had topped &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}