{"id":65595,"date":"2020-12-01T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/writers-weir-meeting-in-plague-times\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T07:30:00","slug":"writers-weir-meeting-in-plague-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/writers-weir-meeting-in-plague-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers&#8217; Weir: Meeting In Plague Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&rsquo;t get me wrong,<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m OK with tech.<\/p>\n<p>But so tired of Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>The little face gallery<\/p>\n<p>like fake passport photos<\/p>\n<p>for fleeing felons.<\/p>\n<p>An occasional fuzzy face<\/p>\n<p>lurches forward. Unmuted voices<\/p>\n<p>talk over each other. Children cry<\/p>\n<p>and washing machine grumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs bark.<\/p>\n<p>I want to reach through<\/p>\n<p>the screen, grab a hand,<\/p>\n<p>touch.<\/p>\n<p><em> &mdash; Margo Waring<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><em>&#8226; The Capital City Weekly, which runs in the Juneau Empire&rsquo;s Thursday editions, accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Writers&rsquo; Weir. To submit a piece for consideration, email us at editor@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem by Margo Waring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":65596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[73],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-65595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-news","tag-ccw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65595"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}