{"id":5663,"date":"2011-12-21T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2011-12-21T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T21:04:54","slug":"poetry-for-the-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"Poetry for the Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Tsami-Spaceborn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5298\" title=\"Tsami, Spaceborn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Tsami-Spaceborn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>My poem <a href=\"http:\/\/stonetelling.com\/issue6-dec2011\/andreadis-mirrortwin.html\"><em>Mirror Twin<\/em><\/a> just appeared in <em>Stone Telling 6<\/em>.  It is a twin in more ways than one: it is the mate\/prequel to <em>Spacetime Geodesics<\/em>, which appeared earlier this year in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bullspec.com\/issue\/6\"><em>Bull Spec 6<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eilidh.cgsociety.org\/gallery\/\">Eleni Tsami<\/a> generously gave me permission to use a black-and-white version of her haunting <em>Spaceborn<\/em> (to the right &#8212; click on the image to see a larger version) as the accompanying art, and the editors of <em>Stone Telling<\/em> granted my wish. As is customary in that venue, there is also a recording of me reciting the poem. The opening lines:<\/p>\n<p><em>Starship navigators live<br \/>\nby renunciation and arrogance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Happy Solstice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My poem Mirror Twin just appeared in Stone Telling 6. It is a twin in more ways than one: it is the mate\/prequel to Spacetime Geodesics, which appeared earlier this year in Bull Spec 6. Eleni Tsami generously gave me permission to use a black-and-white version of her haunting Spaceborn (to the right &#8212; click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-science-fiction","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}