{"id":3317,"date":"2017-07-02T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T00:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2017-07-04T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T14:44:17","slug":"mikesunmistakenandheisarealpoet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"MikesUnmistakenAndHeIsARealPoet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Presidents-Mirror2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3318\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Presidents-Mirror2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Presidents-Mirror2.png 767w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Presidents-Mirror2-300x271.png 300w, https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/The-Presidents-Mirror2-333x300.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My poet-mate Mike Hopkins has been incrementally posting a sequence of fantastic haiku-style poems on his blog \u2018mistakenforarealpoet\u2019 under the title \u2018The President\u2019s Mirror.\u2019 I love them! What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>(I suggest you start on <a href=\"https:\/\/mistakenforarealpoet.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/\">this page\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>and scroll down so you can begin at day 1 to read them in order. But why should you listen to me?)<\/p>\n<p>Great suite of poems Mike \u2013 and thanks for reminding us all once more that we can deal with serious subject-matter while having a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>I should also mention that Mike Hopkins (as \u2018mistakenforarealpoet\u2019) is one of poets who can be found under \u201clinks\u201d in the banner above.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also added <a href=\"http:\/\/kathrynhummel.com\/\">Kathryn Hummel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuaip.com\/\">Joshua Ip<\/a> recently. Please check out their fine work.<\/p>\n<p>STOP PRESS! As if to reinforce Mike&#8217;s talent, only today he&#8217;s been notified that his beautiful poem <em>My father&#8217;s blood<\/em> will be published in Award Winning Australian Writing 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poet-mate Mike Hopkins has been incrementally posting a sequence of fantastic haiku-style poems on his blog \u2018mistakenforarealpoet\u2019 under the title \u2018The President\u2019s Mirror.\u2019 I love them! What do you think? (I suggest you start on this page\u00a0\u00a0and scroll down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=3317\">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-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","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=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}