{"id":7667,"date":"2016-05-17T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=7667"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:34:05","slug":"two-fingers-walt-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/7667-two-fingers-walt-whitman.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Fingers for Walt Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The April 21<sup>st<\/sup> edition of The Long-Islander newspaper slipped through my mail slot today. In &#8220;Walt&#8217;s Corner&#8221;, a column dedicated to poetry since the paper was founded by Walt Whitman in 1838, appears my poem praising various uses of two fingers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two.jpg\" alt=\"with-two\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two-768x895.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two-879x1024.jpg 879w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two-154x180.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2016\/05\/with-two-515x600.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><br \/>(Click to enlarge)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have had two poems in The Long-Islander previously, both times listing my location as &#8220;Ojai, California&#8221;. But this is a poem that could only have been written in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous Poems in The Long-Islander<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/long-islander.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Recipe for the Broken&#8221; &#8211; February 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2011\/08\/double-agent.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Double Agent&#8221; &#8211; August 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 2011<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Note: George Wallace informs me that, while the newspaper was founded in 1838, he actually started publishing &#8220;Walt&#8217;s Corner&#8221; in 1988]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 21st edition of The Long-Islander newspaper slipped through my mail slot today. In &#8220;Walt&#8217;s Corner&#8221;, a column dedicated to poetry since the paper was founded by Walt Whitman in 1838, appears my poem praising various uses of two fingers. (Click to enlarge) I have had two poems in The Long-Islander previously, both times &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/7667-two-fingers-walt-whitman.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Fingers for Walt Whitman<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,5,8],"tags":[706],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}