{"id":397,"date":"2014-02-14T13:57:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suchwanderings.wordpress.com\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-02-14T13:57:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T11:57:47","slug":"helsinki-love-song-online-in-wild-violet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/2014\/02\/14\/helsinki-love-song-online-in-wild-violet\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Helsinki Love Song’ online in Wild Violet"},"content":{"rendered":"

My poem ‘Helsinki Love Song’ is one of the featured works in Wild Violet’s<\/a> Valentine’s Day week series. <\/p>\n

‘Helsinki Love Song’<\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t like Valentine’s Day much due to the focus on a very restricted type of love – Finland is better in that respect, because here it’s known as yst\u00e4v\u00e4np\u00e4iv\u00e4<\/em>, ‘Friend Day’, and is marketed with less of an emphasis on the heteronormative syrupy give-her-roses type romance. Much more inclusive of all kinds of love. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

‘Helsinki Love Song’ is described by the Wild Violet folks as “celebrat[ing] the emotion produced by a place”. Accurate. This city has its ups and downs, but I love it. At the moment I wrote the poem (in August 2012) I was feeling a particularly delirious love for Helsinki and the weird, wonderful things that can take place here. <\/p>\n

Have a good Friend Day, and I hope you enjoy the poem! I love the picture chosen to go with it, too – very evocative of the late-summer beauty that inspired the poem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My poem ‘Helsinki Love Song’ is one of the featured works in Wild Violet’s Valentine’s Day week series. ‘Helsinki Love Song’ I don’t like Valentine’s Day much due to the focus on a very restricted type of love – Finland is better in that respect, because here it’s known as yst\u00e4v\u00e4np\u00e4iv\u00e4, ‘Friend Day’, and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,7],"tags":[79,68,12],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-babble","category-poetry","category-publication","tag-helsinki","tag-wild-violet","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/snuu.kapsi.fi\/saranorja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}