{"id":1309,"date":"2012-04-22T19:33:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T08:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2012-04-24T23:55:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:55:51","slug":"i-m-stephen-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"i. m. Stephen Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/9781862545717.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1312\" title=\"9781862545717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/9781862545717.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/9781862545717.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/9781862545717-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been shocked to learn through Heather Taylor-Johnson that Stephen Lawrence has died suddenly in Adelaide. Steve was an accomplished writer in many forms. He\u2019s been a speechwriter, media\/ publications \/ project officer for the SA government, poet and editor. It was Stephen who selected my <em>sparrow in an airport<\/em> manuscript for Friendly Street\u2019s New Poets Ten \u2013 my first collection \u2013\u00a0 and he continued to take an interest in my writing career. I admired his intelligence and enjoyed his quiet courtesy and self-deprecating sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to Steve\u2019s wife Celine and two children. Stephen will be sadly missed by many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I\u2019ve been shocked to learn through Heather Taylor-Johnson that Stephen Lawrence has died suddenly in Adelaide. Steve was an accomplished writer in many forms. He\u2019s been a speechwriter, media\/ publications \/ project officer for the SA government, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1309\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}