{"id":5438,"date":"2016-03-07T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:19:42","slug":"the-hummingbirds-apprentice-by-gregg-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/posts\/the-hummingbirds-apprentice-by-gregg-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"The&nbsp;Hummingbird&#8217;s Apprentice by Gregg Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\n.left-thumbnail img {display: none; }\n<\/style>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10px\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"140\">\n\t\t\t<center><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zme-caps.amazon.com\/asset\/SSE\/content\/5464233\/THUMBNAIL_IMAGE?versionId=47&#038;awsClient=416214191754%3Auser%2FMainsite&#038;urlMethod=GET&#038;expires=31536000000000&#038;requestId=8983ef7b-e6cc-11e5-bdd6-7b2142a94cf6&#038;sig=481ad0f8f1d6e6cf462b6932d6cac3dc30d1a9ba4fb95a9fb03e336ada312c57&#038;serial=1\" alt=\"The Hummingbird&#039;s Apprentice\" style=\"border-style: solid; border-color: gray;\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/center><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t<em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tList Price:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t$5.50<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"generic_button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5464233\">Purchase from CreateSpace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"generic_button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hummingbirds-Apprentice-Gregg-Glory\/dp\/1511941928\/\">Purchase from Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field_error\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"field_error\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<h1>The Hummingbird&#8217;s Apprentice<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5464233?ref=1147694&#038;utm_id=6026\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-width=\"140\" data-show-faces=\"false\" style=\"display: inline; width: 140px; margin-left: 10px;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<p>   \t\t<b><\/p>\n<p>               Authored by<br \/>\n               Gregg Glory, Gregg G Brown<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tI leaned lazily against the dirty ductwork, my rump in a rumpus of dry leaves, beside me a stack of Cicero (Loeb&#8217;s ed.), Auden, some modernist trash.  I looked past my tilting sneakers to see the edge of the roof of the Guggenheim Library.  A mix of field and woods front leafy Cedar Ave., a terrain that cradled my college days.  This is where I ate my way through french fry piles of poems, feasts of history, big burgers of science, and lemonade gulps of art.  With the open sky above me, a good book beside, and a building full of poetry behind-the world was my oyster!<\/p>\n<p>ROADSIDE WINE<\/p>\n<p>Pull off 71 suddenly, onto<br \/>a wide shoulder of dust and grass.<br \/>Yellow loads of honeysuckle<br \/>weigh down a length<br \/>of brown barbwire fence<br \/>like a wave of honey breaking.<br \/>Excited, splash ankle-deep <br \/>into the unhurrying surf<br \/>full of velvety bee sounds, and select<br \/>one perfect blossom.  It is<br \/>so sweet in the slow afternoon.<br \/>And, where you&#8217;ve cut your thumb,<br \/>a thrill of air catches.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"data_dictionary\" id=\"book_estore_details\">\n<dl>\n<dt>Publication Date:<\/dt>\n<dd>Jul 12 2015<\/dd>\n<dt>ISBN\/EAN13:<\/dt>\n<dd>1511941928 \/ 9781511941921<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Count:<\/dt>\n<dd>160<\/dd>\n<dt>Binding Type:<\/dt>\n<dd>US Trade Paper<\/dd>\n<dt>Trim Size:<\/dt>\n<dd>5.06&quot; x 7.81&quot;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd>English<\/dd>\n<dt>Color:<\/dt>\n<dd>Black and White<\/dd>\n<dt>Related Categories:<\/dt>\n<dd>Poetry \/ American \/ General<\/dd>\n<\/dl><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Introduction: I leaned lazily against the dirty ductwork, my rump in a rumpus of dry leaves, beside me a stack of Cicero (Loeb&#8217;s ed.), Auden, some modernist trash.  I looked past my tilting sneakers to see the edge of the roof of the Guggenheim Library.  A mix of field and woods front leafy Cedar Ave., a terrain that cradled my college days.  This is where I ate my way through french fry piles of poems, feasts of history, big burgers of science, and lemonade gulps of art.  With the open sky above me, a good book beside, and a building full of poetry behind-the world was my oyster!  <\/p>\n<p>A poem from the collection: ROADSIDE WINE\/<\/p>\n<p>Pull off 71 suddenly, onto\/<br \/>a wide shoulder of dust and grass.\/<br \/>Yellow loads of honeysuckle\/<br \/>weigh down a length\/<br \/>of brown barbwire fence<br \/>like a wave of honey breaking.\/<br \/>Excited, splash ankle-deep \/<br \/>into the unhurrying surf\/<br \/>full of velvety bee sounds, and select\/<br \/>one perfect blossom.  It is\/<br \/>so sweet in the slow afternoon.\/<br \/>And, where you&#8217;ve cut your thumb,\/<br \/>a thrill of air catches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blast-press","category-403-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregglory.com\/blastpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}