{"id":24859,"date":"2019-04-02T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24859"},"modified":"2019-04-02T06:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T13:13:36","slug":"just-in-case-you-were-wondering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24859","title":{"rendered":"Just in case you were wondering&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s definitive proof that poets are in it for the money\u2014which, I hasten to add, takes away not a single iota of my gratitude to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cavankerrypress.org\">CavanKerry Press<\/a> for keeping my book alive 13 years after it was published. I have always believed that poetry does its work very slowly, one book and one reader (and sometimes one poem and one reader) at a time. I don&#8217;t know who bought these two copies of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/services\/the-silence-of-men\/\">The Silence of Men<\/a><\/em>, but I hope the poems are bringing them not just pleasure, but meaning and fulfillment. It makes me very happy that the book is still finding its way into readers&#8217; hands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0686-e1554209375982.jpeg\" width=\"511\" height=\"681\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s definitive proof that poets are in it for the money\u2014which, I hasten to add, takes away not a single iota of my gratitude to CavanKerry Press for keeping my book alive 13 years after it was published. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=24859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24863,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24859\/revisions\/24863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}