{"id":896,"date":"2022-08-30T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:32:58","slug":"that-poetry-thing-that-is-on-at-smiths-every-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"That Poetry Thing that is on at Smith&#8217;s Every Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=897\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-897 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-9.39.35-pm-300x277.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-9.39.35-pm-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-9.39.35-pm-1024x947.png 1024w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-9.39.35-pm-768x710.png 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-30-at-9.39.35-pm.png 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> It was a long drive from Newcastle to Canberra and back again the next morning, but worth every mile to be able to perform with this great bunch of talented poets at the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsalternative.com\">Smith&#8217;s Alternative<\/a> \u00a0including my co-feature Daniel Ionita, and an open mic featuring the who&#8217;s who of Canberra&#8217;s thriving poetry scene like Lizz Murphy, PS Cottier (current poetry editor of the Canberra Times), Jacqui Malins, Martin Dolan, Gemma Nethercote Way, Andrew Moss, and Philip Norton to name just a few all beautifully managed by sparkling MC Sarah St Vincent Welch. What an honour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a long drive from Newcastle to Canberra and back again the next morning, but worth every mile to be able to perform with this great bunch of talented poets at the iconic Smith&#8217;s Alternative \u00a0including my co-feature Daniel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}