{"id":329,"date":"2010-12-22T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:03:23","slug":"happy-birthday-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Kenneth Rexroth<\/a>, one of the greats, was born on this day in 1905\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cCross-country hitchhiker, spiritual seeker in monasteries, Parisian ex-pat, Wobbly supporter, translator of Asian poetry, Greenwich Village bohemian, forest ranger in the Pacific Northwest, sexual adventurer: if you mashed up the life experiences of Kerouac, Brother Antonious, Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder you\u2019d get something that looked like Kenneth Rexroth\u2019s (1905-82) bio. He just did it all fifteen years earlier.\u201d David Smay <\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1vfTDa4y91g?fs=1<\/a>\n

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Kenneth Rexroth, one of the greats, was born on this day in 1905\u2026 \u201cCross-country hitchhiker, spiritual seeker in monasteries, Parisian ex-pat, Wobbly supporter, translator of Asian poetry, Greenwich Village bohemian, forest ranger in the Pacific Northwest, sexual adventurer: if you mashed up the life experiences of Kerouac, Brother Antonious, Ginsberg, and Gary Snyder you\u2019d get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHappy birthday, Ken<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kenneth Rexroth, one of the greats, was born on this day in 1905..."Cross-country hitchhiker, spiritual seeker in monasteries, Parisian ex-pat, Wobbly\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy birthday, Ken\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kenneth Rexroth, one of the greats, was born on this day in 1905..."Cross-country hitchhiker, spiritual seeker in monasteries, Parisian ex-pat, Wobbly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-12-22T10:06:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:03:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-753315870375566284?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html\",\"name\":\"Happy birthday, Ken\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-12-22T10:06:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:03:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"Kenneth Rexroth, one of the greats, was born on this day in 1905...\\\"Cross-country hitchhiker, spiritual seeker in monasteries, Parisian ex-pat, Wobbly\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/12\/happy-birthday-ken.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Happy birthday, Ken\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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