{"id":26,"date":"2008-01-28T23:09:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T12:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T01:02:29","slug":"a-new-year-for-friendly-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"a new year for friendly street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/\">Friendly Street Poets<\/a>\u00a0has already started off the new year with its latest newsletter.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/friendlystreetpoets.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fsnewsissue1volume2.pdf\">HERE<\/a>.\u00a0It publishes poems on the theme of New Year, including this one of mine:\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Whitegoods Christmas<\/strong><span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">(On hearing White Christmas and \u201cas the shoppers rush home with their treasures\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">over the PA in the hectic anarchy of an electrical department at Westfield\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Shoppingtown four shopping days before Christmas.)<\/span><span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\"><span style=\"white-space: pre\" class=\"Apple-tab-span\">\t<\/span>These dreams are stacked in aisles, white or stainless<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">As promises of Love and Labour lost<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The pleasure\u2019s in the giving and it\u2019s painless<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">As credit cards and time defer the cost\u2026<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The New Year fades to Old Year feeling<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">The Giving and the Gift both soon forgot.<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 You have More Stuff. But nothing\u2019s healing.<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 10px\/normal Arial; margin: 0px\">You feel that something\u2019s missing, don\u2019t know what\u2026<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Helvetica\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Black'; font-size: 9px; line-height: normal\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a9 rob walker, 21\/12\/07<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<br class=\"webkit-block-placeholder\" \/>The Friendly Street Year kicks off properly with its first reading for 2008 on Tuesday 5th February. Guest Reader is Amelia Walker. See Amelia&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/poetryandpoeticscentre.com\/index.php\/Interview_with_Amelia_Walker\">INTERVIEW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friendly Street Poets\u00a0has already started off the new year with its latest newsletter.\u00a0HERE.\u00a0It publishes poems on the theme of New Year, including this one of mine:\u00a0\u00a0Whitegoods Christmas\u00a0 (On hearing White Christmas and \u201cas the shoppers rush home with their treasures\u201d\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=26\">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":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-new-year","tag-whitegoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}