{"id":1371,"date":"2026-07-14T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:30:38","slug":"retrofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"Retrofit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My own learning about English-language poetry has led me to Karen Solie. I was particularly struck by this passage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve outlived your design.<br>Would need to be retrofitted for safety<br>and who has that kind of time.<br>-For the Ski Jump at Canada\u2019s Olympic Park, Calgary<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feels like we\u2019re talking about people over forty. <em>I <\/em>should be retrofitted, but who has that kind of time? Also, give me another 20 years and I\u2019m aged like a fine wine or cheese and don\u2019t people pay premium for that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My own learning about English-language poetry has led me to Karen Solie. I was particularly struck by this passage: You\u2019ve outlived your design.Would need to be retrofitted for safetyand who has that kind of time.-For the Ski Jump at Canada\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[733,732,384,385,734],"language":[7],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-age","tag-karen-solie","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-retrofit","language-en_ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ammatte.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flanguage&post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}