{"id":3986,"date":"2014-12-28T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2014-12-28T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:35:48","slug":"how-christmas-became-new-years-in-poetry-in-2006-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/how-christmas-became-new-years-in-poetry-in-2006-07\/","title":{"rendered":"How Christmas became New Year&#8217;s (in poetry in 2006-07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, as one does as a New Year approaches, I found this post from December 2006. I had had a poem accepted to be published in the Sunday Journal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/\">News &#038; Observer (Raleigh)<\/a>. I had seen it as a simple poem with a complicated view of joy based on some simple rhymes and numbers. Perfect for Christmas. My editor agreed. Until someone sent in a poem with a star. Here&#8217;s our exchange:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/joy-is-here-is-bumped-to-new-years-eve\/\">\u201cJoy is Here\u201d is bumped to New Year\u2019s Eve<\/a> 12\/20\/2006<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She: [other poet] sent me a christmas poem, so i\u2019d like to run yours on new years eve. okay?<br \/>\nMe: You mean it\u2019s more joyful than mine?<br \/>\nShe: Not necessarily. [other poet]\u2018s is more Christmasy.<br \/>\nMe: More Christmasy than a contingent and contextual look at the compromises we make to achieve joy?<br \/>\nShe: [other poet]\u2018s 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\u2019m rewriting now. Mine will have a party hat. And it will have <a href=\"http:\/\/firstnightraleigh.com\/\">a very large acorn.<\/a><br \/>\nShe: ok! you\u2019re secured!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/poetry\/SongOfJoy.html\">And here is the poem and 99 word preamble which explains itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, as one does as a New Year approaches, I found this post from December 2006. I had had a poem accepted to be published in the Sunday Journal of the News &#038; Observer (Raleigh). I had seen it as a simple poem with a complicated view of joy based on some simple rhymes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}