{"id":1194,"date":"2010-04-21T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1194"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:57","slug":"road-taken","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2006\/summer06\/postcards-from-bates\/road-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/summer06\/farnsworth-pg9-7736WEB.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Farnsworth, poet and lecturer in English at Bates, is this summer\u2019s poet-in-residence at The Frost Place, the farmhouse in Franconia, N.H., where Robert Frost and family spent 19 summers. Farnsworth will offer three public readings during his July\u2013August stay, including one on Frost Day, the state\u2019s annual celebration (July 2). \u201cThe residency is a great honor, and I hope the new work I intend to develop there will seem worthy of it,&#8221; Farnsworth said. \u201cI can think of no other writer I\u2019d rather be haunted and inspired by than Frost. Writing, sleeping, living in Robert and Elinor\u2019s house, touching the griddle, writing in the chair of the immortals \u2014 what a thrill!&#8221; Photograph by Phyllis Graber Jensen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Farnsworth, poet and lecturer in English at Bates, is this summer\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":1191,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11254,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1194\/revisions\/11254"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}