{"id":998,"date":"2006-01-31T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=998"},"modified":"2006-01-31T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T03:04:58","slug":"weaver-street-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/weaver-street-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaver Street Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to do my brief poet bit on <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=994\">WCOM with Chris Frank and Joy Javits<\/a>, I stopped by <a href=\"http:\/\/weaverstreetmarket.org\/\">Weaver Street Market<\/a> to grab a coffee. There I ran into Jon Wilner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artscenterlive.org\/\">ArtCenter<\/a> director, and <a href=\"http:\/\/english.unc.edu\/faculty\/leinbaught.html\">Ted Leinbaugh, MBE<\/a> the expert in Medieval Literature. Jon was very excited that ArtCenter had just been named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinachamber.org\/news\/full_story.html?id=507\">&#8220;Business of the Year&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinachamber.org\/\">the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. We talked briefly about the poem Jon had seen in the News and Observer and I was delighted that Ted was very familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dafydd-ap-gwilym.org.uk\/hafansaesneg.shtml\">Dafydd ap Gwilym<\/a> who is a major influence on my poetry.<br \/>\nTurning around I nearly ran into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/russia\/Page4.html\">Elena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/russia\/russia-Thumbnails\/150.jpg\">who I&#8217;d last seen in Irkutsk, Siberia a couple of years back<\/a>. She surprised me. I thought I had seen her on Sunday also at Weaver Street but I told myself &#8220;No it can&#8217;t be Elena she&#8217;s in Siberia.&#8221; She&#8217;s here working on a text book for use in Russia.<br \/>\nSo <a href=\"http:\/\/weaverstreetmarket.org\/\">Weaver Street<\/a>, international, multi-disciplinary, arts meets scholarship and pretty good coffee too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to do my brief poet bit on WCOM with Chris Frank and Joy Javits, I stopped by Weaver Street Market to grab a coffee. There I ran into Jon Wilner, ArtCenter director, and Ted Leinbaugh, MBE the expert in Medieval Literature. Jon was very excited that ArtCenter had just been named &#8220;Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}