{"id":56,"date":"2017-04-23T18:59:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-04-23T18:59:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T23:59:40","slug":"welcome-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome to the new Bluebonnet Equinox!<\/strong> After neglecting this blog shamefully for three years &#8230; ouch! &#8230; I&#8217;m relaunching it with a new design and a new commitment to keep it going.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll register so you can get notified when I post. And, I hope you&#8217;ll comment on anything that strikes you!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in case you&#8217;re wondering about the site name\u2014it&#8217;s kind of a long story, but the phrase, which I came up with years ago,\u00a0was influenced by my 14 years living in central Texas. The wildflowers blooming in spring there, especially the bluebonnets, were an amazing and joy-bringing sight. People would often bring their families out in Easter finery to take pictures among the bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush and little pink and yellow flowers whose names I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Equinox<\/em>\u00a0joined the title\u00a0just because I liked the way it sounded with the word <em>bluebonnet<\/em>. I sometimes write that way, especially when writing poetry. I have emotional reactions to certain words and groups of words. <em>Equinox<\/em>\u00a0is also a cool word because it has science-y aspects and ancient religion-y aspects. See what a wordsmith I am!<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m serving as editor of the 2016 <em>Dwarf Stars<\/em> anthology, a product of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfpoetry.com\">Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association<\/a>. The anthology is \u00a0both a showcase of short-form speculative poetry and a voting tool for the SFPA members to choose the best speculative poetry under 10 lines from 2016. The selection process is very hard work, but wonderful, wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>Check out the SFPA website sometime and learn a little about speculative poetry. You might be surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new Bluebonnet Equinox! After neglecting this blog shamefully for three years &#8230; ouch! &#8230; I&#8217;m relaunching it with a new design and a new commitment to keep it going. I hope you&#8217;ll register so you can get notified when I post. And, I hope you&#8217;ll comment on anything that strikes you! By &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/?p=56\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome, again!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[32,30,31,34,13,33],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-writing","tag-fantasy","tag-poetry","tag-science-fiction","tag-sfpa","tag-texas","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hieran.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}