{"id":10670,"date":"2021-01-21T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=10670"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:16:52","slug":"my-approach-to-literary-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/my-approach-to-literary-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"My Approach to Literary Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Approach to Literary Networking<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>after Francois Villon<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most days I\u2019d rather be bundled<br \/>\ninto the courthouse between<br \/>\ntwo hairy policemen,<br \/>\nwith a highly debatable anorak<br \/>\ndragged over my face, and<br \/>\nblamed for killing Kirov \u2013<br \/>\nthe crowd lobbing big thick<br \/>\nspits and battering the van<br \/>\nas I\u2019m carted off \u2013<\/p>\n<p>or be stopped at the Canadian border<br \/>\ntravelling on a makey up Polish passport,<br \/>\nthe remnants of a Dutch industrialist<br \/>\nand what I think was his second wife settled<br \/>\nunhappily in my glove compartment;<\/p>\n<p>or attend my mother-in-law\u2019s funeral<br \/>\nhaving been fitted with a wooden nose<br \/>\nbecause (everybody knows)<br \/>\nthe other one fell off due to<br \/>\nthird stage syphilis;<\/p>\n<p>than ghost about the joint provoking<br \/>\nnods from gabardine coats<br \/>\nof great import and longevity,<br \/>\ngrunts of approval<br \/>\nfrom fully clothed minor male poets.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Feature Image: Joseph Stalin and Sergei Zhadanov at the funeral of Sergei Kirov in December, 1934 (unknown author).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Approach to Literary Networking after Francois Villon\u00a0 Most days I\u2019d rather be bundled into the courthouse between two hairy policemen, with a highly debatable anorak dragged over my face, and blamed for killing Kirov \u2013 the crowd lobbing big thick spits and battering the van as I\u2019m carted off \u2013 or be stopped at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":10672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5188,5194,5218,5219,5565],"class_list":["post-10670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-kevin-higgins-approach-to-literary-networking","tag-kevin-higgins-cassandra-voices","tag-kevin-higgins-poet","tag-kevin-higgins-poetry","tag-literary-networking-in-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}