{"id":1845,"date":"2013-05-27T02:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2013-05-27T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T07:37:58","slug":"detachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"detachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mi1_10631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1847\" title=\"mi1_1063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mi1_10631.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mi1_10631.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mi1_10631-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">There are a lot of strange ironies at work here\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday was the launch of 21D\u2019s Light edition, an issue which included my poem <em>semi-detached<\/em>. I wrote this poem two years ago when I had to have laser surgery on my right eye when the retina threatened to detach.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a beautiful publication with exquisite photos and some excellent writing.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s the irony \u2013 on the very day of the launch in Melbourne I made a hurried visit to my eye specialist. This time the retina in the left eye had torn and I was scheduled for surgery on the following morning. My eye is still swollen, I have double-vision \u2013 but I\u2019m hopeful of a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the 21D team for publishing my work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-27-at-12.29.22-AM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1851\" title=\"Screen shot 2013-05-27 at 12.29.22 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-27-at-12.29.22-AM1-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-27-at-12.29.22-AM1-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-27-at-12.29.22-AM1.png 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are a lot of strange ironies at work here\u2026 Last Thursday was the launch of 21D\u2019s Light edition, an issue which included my poem semi-detached. I wrote this poem two years ago when I had to have laser &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=1845\">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-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}