{"id":3564,"date":"2005-01-23T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/23\/mid-argument\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:02","slug":"mid-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/23\/mid-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"mid-argument"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Friday evening<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"penny \"penny <\/FONT>MATT MORDEN<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“frosty morning” – <\/FONT>The Heron’s Nest<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Jan. 2001)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“Friday evening” – <\/FONT>A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/EM>(Red Moon Press 2001)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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may delve into Yabut-like posting on <\/FONT>being<\/FONT><\/A> politically-incorrect; <\/FONT>seeking<\/FONT><\/A> contest <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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odds; <\/FONT>hoping<\/FONT><\/A> for tolerance; <\/FONT>eschewing<\/FONT><\/A> slacktivism; and <\/FONT>preventing<\/A><\/FONT> ire. <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

frosty morning the carriage horses turn a tight circle   mid-argument– a bumblebee stumbles in clover   Friday evening the chip shop counter worn by small change       MATT MORDEN “frosty morning” – The Heron’s Nest (Jan. 2001) “mid-argument–” – The Heron’s Nest (Oct. 2001) “Friday evening” – A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices (Red Moon Press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Vu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13401,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}