{"id":25,"date":"2003-03-21T01:30:53","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T07:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-02-04T11:40:53","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T09:40:53","slug":"akin-for-a-poetry-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/21\/akin-for-a-poetry-night\/","title":{"rendered":"akin for a poetry night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got back from a great vibing poetry reading over in Melville with Tisch buddy,
\nAkin,<\/a> and his friend
\nwhose name I should probably not try to spell (Mutoto?). Really great poetry,
\nand it’s soooo nice to have a fellow (progressive) American here during the current
\ncrisis. It hurts to see the world in such pain. General sentiment at the reading:
\nBush is a turd. Akin<\/a>
\nreally impressed me with his verbage stylings, etc, and it seems we have found
\npartners to go to readings with, in each other. Rock like a masochist! OK. Time
\nfor bed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got back from a great vibing poetry reading over in Melville with Tisch buddy, Akin, and his friend whose name I should probably not try to spell (Mutoto?). Really great poetry, and it’s soooo nice to have a fellow (progressive) American here during the current crisis. It hurts to see the world in such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1301,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/netverse\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"netVerse","author":"nathaniel","date":"21 August 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Joburg's own Andre SC has developed his first piece of net.art, and it's definitely a noteworthy feat. 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