{"id":2212,"date":"2014-03-26T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T19:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:35:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T23:35:47","slug":"national-poetry-writing-month-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2212","title":{"rendered":"National Poetry Writing Month (April)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I sense that my prose is starting to lose its unique voice, its sparkle and depth, those nifty unexpected turns of phrase that make you sit up and go, &#8220;Ah, now that&#8217;s not bad!&#8221;.  That&#8217;s usually when I realize that I haven&#8217;t been writing enough poetry.  So in the spirit of getting back in touch with my wild subconscious (by far the better instinctive writer than boring old everyday me), I&#8217;ll be writing and posting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?cat=6\" title=\"A Poem a Day for April (2014)\">A Poem a Day<\/a><\/strong> in honour of National Poetry Month.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/\"><strong>NaPoWriMo<\/strong><\/a> site for links to other poets doing the same thing.  To find a poetry-inspired event near you, just Google &#8220;National Poetry Month 2014&#8221;; it&#8217;s celebrated all over North America every April (and in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetrysociety.org.uk\/content\/info\/npd\/\" title=\"National Poetry Month UK, The Poetry Society\" target=\"_blank\">October in the UK<\/a>).  And don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/page.php\/prmID\/406\" title=\"Poem in Your Pocket day\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Poem in Your Pocket Day<\/strong><\/a> on Thurs. April 24th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I sense that my prose is starting to lose its unique voice, its sparkle and depth, those nifty unexpected turns of phrase that make you sit up and go, &#8220;Ah, now that&#8217;s not bad!&#8221;. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2212\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[891],"tags":[895,894,893,892,896,764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}