{"id":1536,"date":"2008-12-19T00:46:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T06:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2008-12-19T00:47:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T06:47:35","slug":"poetry-friday-o-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: O Christmas Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fs.fed.us\/wildflowers\/plant-of-the-week\/winter_solstice.shtml\"><img src='http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/snow-on-juniper2.jpg' alt='snow on juniper tree' \/><\/a>I want to share a very good Christmas poem with you guys &#8211; but I can&#8217;t. At least, I can&#8217;t transcribe part of it here and then tell you to &#8220;click here to read the rest.&#8221; It&#8217;s a shape poem (actually, a shape <em>sonnet<\/em>, if you can believe it) and in WordPress it&#8217;s just a pain in the ass to try to get the spacing right. <\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=23321\"><strong>click here and read &#8220;Sonnet in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree&#8221; by George Starbuck<\/strong><\/a>. I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;m forgoing the usual excerpt, but I&#8217;ll tell you that it has delicious words like &#8220;fury-bedecked&#8221; and &#8220;glitter-torn&#8221; and &#8220;bonbonbonanza.&#8221; Please take my word for it. It&#8217;s good. You&#8217;ll like it. Pinky-promise. And&#8230; Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Beautiful Solstice.<\/p>\n<p><center>* * * * * * *<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Laura is on Poetry Friday Round-Up detail at <a href=\"http:\/\/authoramok.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Author Amok<\/strong><\/a>. You&#8217;ll want to see what she&#8217;s got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to share a very good Christmas poem with you guys &#8211; but I can&#8217;t. At least, I can&#8217;t transcribe part of it here and then tell you to &#8220;click here to read the rest.&#8221; It&#8217;s a shape poem (actually, a shape sonnet, if you can believe it) and in WordPress it&#8217;s just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}