{"id":803,"date":"2013-03-20T06:48:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=803"},"modified":"2013-03-20T06:48:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T10:48:31","slug":"same-door-different-knocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Same Door, Different Knocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us work diligently, even idolatrously (one must be serious, after all) at poems, hoping some day to end up in Poetry magazine, a feat that is supposed to (emphasis on the supposed to) confer a kind of arrival. Whatever it means, the sheer number of submissions they receive, and the fact that it&#8217;s an editorial committee (and Editor) making judgments subject to the vagaries of judgment like any other journal, means simply that it&#8217;s not easy to break through. But here&#8217;s a guy, <a href=\"http:\/\/jakeroctober.tumblr.com\/\">Jake Austen<\/a>, who is trying to get his name in lights by writing comics celebrating Poetry&#8217;s 100th anniversary year. And anytime you can get writers (or anyone) to laugh at themselves it seems a fine thing. Everything serious is funny (but then everything funny is serious). I hope he wins.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jakeroctober1plums.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jakeroctober1plums.png?resize=561%2C505&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"jakeroctober1plums\" width=\"561\" height=\"505\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jakeroctober1plums.png?w=561&amp;ssl=1 561w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/jakeroctober1plums.png?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of us work diligently, even idolatrously (one must be serious, after all) at poems, hoping some day to end up in Poetry magazine, a feat that is supposed to (emphasis on the supposed to) confer a kind of arrival. Whatever it means, the sheer number of submissions they receive, and the fact that it&#8217;s an editorial committee (and Editor) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}