{"id":9419,"date":"2025-03-14T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T22:50:53","slug":"artistic-influences-mentors-supporters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Influences, Mentors, &amp; Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artistic Influences, Mentors, &amp; Supporters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-9419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9VlUH-2rV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9622,"url":"https:\/\/www.catholicboy.com\/WP\/background\/friends-influences\/important-people-in-carrolls-life-and-work\/artistic-influences-mentors-supporters\/frank-ohara\/","url_meta":{"origin":9419,"position":0},"title":"Frank O&#8217;Hara","author":"Cassie Carter","date":"May 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Frank O'Hara is Carroll's number one literary influence and favorite poet, although they never met. 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