{"id":1187,"date":"2012-03-04T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2012-03-04T19:26:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T18:26:05","slug":"twitter-as-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Twitter as Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I have just been lucky enough to win &#8216;140 and counting&#8217; by Joanne Merriem from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\">www.librarything.com<\/a>. It is a selection of sayings, necessarily short, from Twitter, and very appealing and absorbing. I have been an ardent fan of Twitter for over a year, and a more recent convert to Haiku. Why write a hundred words when ten can express the same thought and capture the same evocative image? Choosing my favourite was difficult but I settled on:<\/span><br \/>\nstop to tie my shoe<br \/>\nlook up evening comes<br \/>\nwithout warning<br \/>\n&#8211; Neal Whitman<\/p>\n<p>I was also absorbed by the short biographies of the contributors, and have already clicked &#8216;Follow&#8217; on three of them. Joanne Merriam, the editor of Upper Rubber Boot, is definitely someone I intend to find out more about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been lucky enough to win &#8216;140 and counting&#8217; by Joanne Merriem from www.librarything.com. It is a selection of sayings, necessarily short, from Twitter, and very appealing and absorbing. I have been an ardent fan of Twitter for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=1187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58],"tags":[112,110,111],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-j9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}