{"id":457295,"date":"2026-09-08T15:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457295\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:58:10","slug":"robert-hass-on-growing-up-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/457295\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Hass on Growing Up in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,&lt;svg xmlns=&quot;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&quot; width=&quot;24&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; fill=&quot;%23ffffff&quot; viewBox=&quot;0 0 256 256&quot;&gt;%0A%09&lt;path d=&quot;M240,128a15.74,15.74,0,0,1-7.6,13.51L88.32,229.65a16,16,0,0,1-16.2.3A15.86,15.86,0,0,1,64,216.13V39.87a15.86,15.86,0,0,1,8.12-13.82,16,16,0,0,1,16.2.3L232.4,114.49A15.74,15.74,0,0,1,240,128Z&quot;&gt;%0A&lt;\/path&gt;&lt;\/svg&gt;\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Play video\"\/><img alt=\"Video poster\" title=\"Video poster\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f59379ce-a5a3-41c1-aa65-b9c52c2662d3.jpg\" class=\"css-0 e1ddfba50\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"body-dropcap css-1qqh3wl emevuu60\">Robert Hass\u2019s poetry has been described as being \u201crooted in California history and ecology.\u201d In this California Book Club clip, Hass muses on his family\u2019s Sunday excursions\u2014from San Rafael through the rolling hills and rocky ocean ledges of Marin County and across the Golden Gate Bridge\u2014to visit his grandparents in San Francisco. He explains that at a young age, it was terrain that fueled his imagination, terrain that New York and Boston publishers did not include in children\u2019s books of the time.\u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Hass\u2019s poetry has been described as being \u201crooted in California history and ecology.\u201d In this California Book&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12788,180452,180448,118353,7,118350,46734,180457,9,23238,180456,180449,8,118355,180447,180451,180453,992,180454,180455,118346,180446,180450],"class_list":["post-457295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-alta-journal","tag-american-poetry","tag-bay-area-poetry","tag-bay-area-poets","tag-california","tag-california-book-club","tag-california-books","tag-california-ecology","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-history","tag-california-landscape","tag-california-literature","tag-california-news","tag-california-poetry","tag-california-poets","tag-california-writers","tag-contemporary-poetry","tag-marin-county","tag-poetry-interview","tag-poetry-reading","tag-robert-hass","tag-robert-hass-poetry","tag-san-francisco-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}