{"id":456,"date":"2010-10-06T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-10-06T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T05:00:53","slug":"october-means-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"October Means Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce acceptance of my poem &#8220;Dragonfly&#8221; as a featured piece by Writer&#8217;s News Weekly. Writer&#8217;s News Weekly is dedicated to &#8220;writing something worth reading; doing something worth writing about.&#8221; I&#8217;m honored and humbled the WNW team considers my work worthy of that lofty aspiration. The poem they chose, &#8220;Dragonfly,&#8221; was inspired by one of those wonderfully random moments that remind me the world is full of beauty despite its ugliness. To read the poem, click the banner below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersnewsweekly.com\/poem_dragonfly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.writersnewsweekly.com\/images\/banners\/fullbanner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am also featured in this month&#8217;s issue of <em>From A Writer&#8217;s POV<\/em> magazine. The article includes my poem &#8220;Dagger In The Sky.&#8221; My favorite quote from the piece is the very first sentence: &#8220;Darius McCaskey sees the world in a vastly different manner than most people&#8230;&#8221; That&#8217;s probably one of the most flattering things anyone has ever said about me. If you&#8217;d like to read the complete\u00a0article, and my poem, &#8220;Dagger In The Sky,&#8221;\u00a0<a title=\"From A Writer's POV\" href=\"http:\/\/fromawriterspovmagazine.com\/issue\/october-2010-edition\/article\/darius-mccaskey\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you like those poems, you should pick up a copy of my debut poetry book, <em>Angst &amp; Wrath<\/em>. It&#8217;s available in print and electronic versions from all major online outlets, including the iBookstore, <a title=\"Angst &amp; Wrath on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Angst-Wrath-Darius-McCaskey\/dp\/0557266467\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>, and <a title=\"Angst &amp; Wrath on Smashwords\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/12700\" target=\"_blank\">Smashwords<\/a>. You can also add the book to your lists on Goodreads by clicking the nifty widget over there &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very pleased to announce acceptance of my poem &#8220;Dragonfly&#8221; as a featured piece by Writer&#8217;s News Weekly. Writer&#8217;s News Weekly is dedicated to &#8220;writing something worth reading; doing something worth writing about.&#8221; I&#8217;m honored and humbled the WNW team considers my work worthy of that lofty aspiration. The poem they chose, &#8220;Dragonfly,&#8221; was inspired&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":[37,27],"tags":[190,222,303,555,556,788],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-dagger-in-the-sky","tag-dragonfly","tag-from-a-writers-pov","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2","tag-writers-news-weekly"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgg9VX-7m","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3.136.9.181\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}