{"id":1758,"date":"2006-12-20T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T02:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2006-12-24T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T19:11:46","slug":"joy-is-here-is-bumped-to-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/joy-is-here-is-bumped-to-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Joy is Here&#8221; is bumped to New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exchange of notes with my editor goes like this: <\/p>\n<p>She: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/436\/story\/525004.html\">[other poet] sent me a christmas poem<\/a>, so i&#8217;d like to run yours on new years eve. okay?<br \/>\nMe: You mean it&#8217;s more joyful than mine?<br \/>\nShe: Not necessarily. [other poet]&#8217;s is more Christmasy.<br \/>\nMe: More Christmasy that a contingent and contextual look at the compromises we make to achieve joy?<br \/>\nShe: [other poet]&#8217;s has a star in it.<br \/>\nMe: if i add a star somewhere in my poem can i be the christmas poem? i already have birds and a tree.<br \/>\nShe: yours will be the perfect poem to greet the new year.<br \/>\nMe: What if someone shows up with a poem with party hats and champagne in it, will I get bumped again?<br \/>\nShe: hmm. well .. let me think about that.<br \/>\nMe: Wait! Wait! I&#8217;m rewriting now. Mine will have a party hat. And it will have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstnightraleigh.com\/\">a very large acorn<\/a>.<br \/>\nShe: ok! you&#8217;re secured!<\/p>\n<p>Such are the battles of literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exchange of notes with my editor goes like this: She: [other poet] sent me a christmas poem, so i&#8217;d like to run yours on new years eve. okay? Me: You mean it&#8217;s more joyful than mine? She: Not necessarily. [other poet]&#8217;s is more Christmasy. Me: More Christmasy that a contingent and contextual look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}