{"id":801,"date":"2008-09-19T14:16:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T22:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2008-12-30T20:28:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T04:28:44","slug":"xj-kennedy-one-of-the-greatest-contemporary-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"X.J. Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very disappointed to learn that the (October 5, 2008: Reading with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjanddorothymkennedy.com\">X.J. Kennedy<\/a> and Jean Valentine to mark the 40th anniversary of the Katonah Poetry Series 2-5 p.m. at the Harvey School, Katonah, New York) was canceled due to a lack of ticket sales =((.  I was really looking forward to the reading and perhaps meeting X.J. Kennedy.  I&#8217;ve been admiring his work for quite a while now and had the pleasure of hearing him read during my undergraduate graduation.  I remember being kind of delirious telling people, &#8220;that&#8217;s X. J. Kennedy, that&#8217;s X.J. Kennedy&#8230;&#8221;   I was shocked to learn of the cancellation because he is a well-known and well-respected published poet.  This makes me concerned that our society is not providing enough support to the Arts; not attending the rich variety of amazing cultural events that we are so fortunate to still have at this time.  <\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-801 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=806'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/xj_photo.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-806\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-806'>\n\t\t\t\tX.J., A Great Contemporary American Poet\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=809'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nude_descending_a_staircase-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nude_descending_a_staircase-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nude_descending_a_staircase-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nude_descending_a_staircase.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=808'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/dark_horses-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=807'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/lords_of_misrule-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=812'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/peep_toms_cabin-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=811'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/prominent_secaucus-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very disappointed to learn that the (October 5, 2008: Reading with X.J. 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I was really looking forward to the reading &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,4],"tags":[185,186,187],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-poetry","tag-cultural-events","tag-poetry-reading","tag-xj-kennedy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}