{"id":766,"date":"2007-07-04T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=766"},"modified":"2007-07-04T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T13:00:48","slug":"merry-fourth-from-7-imp-propulsive-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Merry Fourth from 7-Imp: &#8220;Propulsive Possibilities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/walt072.JPG\" alt=\"Walt Whitman, frontispiece to 'Leaves of Grass,' steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison; image in the public domain\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjoehoppe.com\/?page_id=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/galvanized.jpg\"><\/a>Just a quick note to say happy 4th of July to everyone and to direct you to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/liz-scanlon.livejournal.com\/24786.html\">this<\/a><\/strong> recent and wonderful Poetry Friday post at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lizgartonscanlon.com\/\">Liz Garton Scanlon&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/liz-scanlon.livejournal.com\/\">LiveJournal<\/a><\/strong>. She shares a poem written by her good friend, poet and teacher<br \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjoehoppe.com\/\">W. Joe Hoppe<\/a><\/strong>. Liz shares a poem (in its entirety) that he wrote in 1992, entitled &#8220;It&#8217;d be a Happy Ending.&#8221; And it&#8217;s not only a wonderful poem, but it&#8217;s fitting for the fourth. So, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/liz-scanlon.livejournal.com\/24786.html\">go experience it<\/a><\/strong>. It&#8217;ll be worth your time (and then you&#8217;ll understand why we titled this post the way we did). <\/p>\n<p>His poem at Liz&#8217;s post might make you want to read his newest anthology of poetry, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjoehoppe.com\/?page_id=3\">Galvanized<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (2006, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daltonpublishing.com\/\">Dalton Publishing<\/a><\/strong>). We know we want to. (And we just have to add that Liz &#8212; in her post about the poem &#8212; describes him as &#8220;remarkable for all sorts of reasons, including his lovin&#8217; dad energy, his amazing full-back tattoo, his wise and talented wife, and his buddist-midwestern-hotrod-classics sensibility.&#8221; How great is that description?) . . .<\/p>\n<p>Also, Nancy at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journey-woman.blogspot.com\"><em>Journey Woman<\/em><\/a><\/strong> had some <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journey-woman.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/little-poetry-for-you-america.html\">great poetry choices<\/a><\/strong> for the holiday for her most recent Poetry Friday entry. We particularly loved this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn\u2019t standing still.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be E.E. Cummings for you on this July 4th. Go read <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journey-woman.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/little-poetry-for-you-america.html\">the rest<\/a><\/strong> of Nancy&#8217;s poetry choices, including &#8220;I Hear America Singing&#8221; by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Whitman\">Uncle Walt<\/a><\/strong> (pictured here). Happy 4th to all . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note to say happy 4th of July to everyone and to direct you to this recent and wonderful Poetry Friday post at Liz Garton Scanlon&#8217;s LiveJournal. She shares a poem written by her good friend, poet and teacherW. Joe Hoppe. Liz shares a poem (in its entirety) that he wrote in 1992, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}