{"id":811,"date":"2011-08-04T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2011-08-04T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T05:29:40","slug":"diamonds-in-the-soot%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"diamonds in the soot\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-812\" title=\"diamondsinthesoot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diamondsinthesoot.jpg\" alt=\"diamondsinthesoot\" width=\"406\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diamondsinthesoot.jpg 406w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/diamondsinthesoot-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>An unusually high occurrence of rejections lately \u2013 possibly because of the high volume of poems &amp; short stories I\u2019ve been submitting \u2026 On the POSITIVE side, some upcoming gigs:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/max-mo\">Max-Mo<\/a> are performing this Sunday @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=124345350986811\">The Squatters Arms<\/a> pub (cnr Port Rd &amp; George Street, Thebarton) 6-8pm and we have some amazing new material!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I\u2019ve been awarded \u2018Highly Commended\u2019 for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chemistry2011.org\/\">chemistry<\/a> haiku &#8220;<strong>carbon<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaus.org.au\/programs\/feature-series\/gbsr\/sciku\/\">RiAus Sci-ku 2011 competition<\/a> &amp; I\u2019ll be reading it and collecting my award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaus.org.au\/programs-and-events\/gbsr-where-worlds-collide\/\">Where Worlds Collid<\/a>e presentation ceremony @ RiAus, Stock Exchange Place 20\/08\/11. I\u2019ve also heard it will be \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaus.org.au\/programs\/feature-series\/gbsr\/sciku\/\">up in lights<\/a>\u201d \u00a0 Congrats to all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaus.org.au\/programs\/feature-series\/gbsr\/sciku\/\">winners!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I\u2019ll be premiering a new poem <em><\/em> (an homage to Kahil Jureidini) at the Friendly Street @ RiAus event <a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/?p=3034\">Sci-odes, Sonnets and Supernovas<\/a> next Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . An unusually high occurrence of rejections lately \u2013 possibly because of the high volume of poems &amp; short stories I\u2019ve been submitting \u2026 On the POSITIVE side, some upcoming gigs: \u2022 Max-Mo are performing this Sunday @ &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}