{"id":1577,"date":"2009-02-11T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2009-02-11T00:01:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T06:01:30","slug":"valentines-day-cephalopod-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day, Cephalopod-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/octopus1.jpg\" border=1 alt=\"The 54th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904), depicting organisms classified as Gamochonia; image in the public domain\" title=\"The 54th plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (1904), depicting organisms classified as Gamochonia; image in the public domain\">Well, my blogging plans for today were thwarted by some flu-like something or other that has rather inconveniently visited my home this week. But, lucky for us here at 7-Imp, the ever-so blog-friendly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpatricklewis.com\/\"><strong>J. Patrick Lewis<\/strong><\/a> will occasionally stop by to share some new poetry, as he does at many other blogs. And how nice is it to get a random poem from one of children&#8217;s literature&#8217;s most talented and prolific poets and authors? Very. And the opportunity to share it? Even better. <\/p>\n<p>So, yes, J. Patrick Lewis has made it easy for me today. I get to let <em>him<\/em> do the talkin&#8217;. In this case, it&#8217;s a Valentine&#8217;s Day poem, which will appear in COUNTDOWN TO SUMMER: A POEM FOR EVERY DAY OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, to be released by Little, Brown in June of this year. <em>Did we have a Valentine&#8217;s Day poem?<\/em> he asked me and Eisha. No, we didn&#8217;t, but now we do. And an adventurous, sea-faring one at that. And one involving amorous octopi sweethearts, three words which I never thought I&#8217;d put together. I even had to look up &#8220;bosun,&#8221; but now I&#8217;m in-the-know. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Pat! Hope everyone enjoys this. If it doesn&#8217;t make you smile, then shiver me timbers! You need to stop and take a break. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/jplvalentine.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my blogging plans for today were thwarted by some flu-like something or other that has rather inconveniently visited my home this week. But, lucky for us here at 7-Imp, the ever-so blog-friendly J. Patrick Lewis will occasionally stop by to share some new poetry, as he does at many other blogs. And how nice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}