{"id":4724,"date":"2011-07-06T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2011-07-06T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:52:45","slug":"stop-sharpening-your-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/stop-sharpening-your-knives\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Sharpening Your Knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anthology series of poetry and illustration, <a href=\"http:\/\/stopsharpeningyourknives.co.uk\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Stop Sharpening Your Knives<\/em><\/a> has been around for a good few years, and is currently accepting submissions for its 5th edition. I had the good fortune to hear a performance by one of its editors, poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/author\/jack-underwood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Underwood<\/a>, at the launch night of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonwordfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">London Word Festival<\/a> a few months back, who was equally hilarious and heartfelt. No doubt he&#8217;s got good taste as well, eh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ssyk2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4728\" title=\"ssyk\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ssyk2-337x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ssyk2-337x500.jpg 337w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ssyk2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ssyk2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anthology series of poetry and illustration, Stop Sharpening Your Knives has been around for a good few years, and is currently accepting submissions for its 5th edition. I had the good fortune to hear a performance by one of its editors, poet Jack Underwood, at the launch night of the London Word Festival a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[124,337,150,24],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-illustration","tag-inspiration","tag-poetry","tag-zines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}