{"id":1481,"date":"2008-06-30T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T20:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mercuryranch.org\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T16:24:45","slug":"endless-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/endless-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"EndlesS Has Arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen B. Bagley&#8217;s (our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/51313.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tech<\/a>) <em>EndlesS:\u00a0 A Collection of Poems<\/em> arrived in the mail today, and I&#8217;m already enjoying it.\u00a0 Lulu does a fine job of packaging.\u00a0 <em>EndlesS<\/em> is a slim volume of poetry with a very attractive cover.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed poetry packaged this way is just nicer.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why, but I think it reads better that way.\u00a0 My copy came carefully packed in cushioning material, thus ensuring it didn&#8217;t slide around inside it&#8217;s cardboard wrapper.<\/p>\n<p>I like textured poetry &#8212; where the words are arranged in a manner indicating a shape or texture.\u00a0 I know there&#8217;s a name for it, but I can&#8217;t recall it.\u00a0 The poem &#8220;Endless&#8221; is formatted in an hourglass shape, and the unpunctuated verses (endless, get it?) also function to participate in the form just so.\u00a0 So far, this is my favorite in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen B. Bagley&#8217;s (our very own Tech) EndlesS:\u00a0 A Collection of Poems arrived in the mail today, and I&#8217;m already enjoying it.\u00a0 Lulu does a fine job of packaging.\u00a0 EndlesS is a slim volume of poetry with a very attractive cover.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve noticed poetry packaged this way is just nicer.\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/endless-has-arrived\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16098,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/16098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}