{"id":4901,"date":"2022-01-21T20:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2022-02-23T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:34:04","slug":"griffin-poetry-features-something-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/griffin-poetry-features-something-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Poetry features Something Wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Bill Griffin for featuring Something Wonderful on his <a href=\"https:\/\/griffinpoetry.com\/2022\/01\/21\/cycles-circles-close\/\">Griffin Poetry Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And thanks for these good words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI\u2019ve always been a bit in awe of Paul Jones\u2019s poetic gifts. Envious even. Not only because he can make rhyme so damn modern but even more for his capacious breadth and depth. What an imaginative reach! I\u2019m not reprinting To a Tuber here but read it and you will become convinced that the potato is within all the vegetable kingdom most elegant, elevated, and worthy of praise.<\/p>\n<p>So I knew before I ordered my copy of Paul\u2019s new book Something Wonderful that it would be, and it is. The sly wit is there, waiting to pounce, but also heartfelt longing and wry uncompromising looks into personal finitude. You don\u2019t really discover why the cover is covered with 19th century illustrations of bats until page 80 and the title poem. Take the time, make the trip. It\u2019s worth it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Bill Griffin for featuring Something Wonderful on his Griffin Poetry Blog And thanks for these good words: I\u2019ve always been a bit in awe of Paul Jones\u2019s poetic gifts. Envious even. Not only because he can make rhyme so damn modern but even more for his capacious breadth and depth. What an [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","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=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}