{"id":2663,"date":"2026-07-04T02:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=2663"},"modified":"2026-07-04T02:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:49:42","slug":"from-honeysuckle-taint-to-shinny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2026\/07\/04\/from-honeysuckle-taint-to-shinny\/","title":{"rendered":"From Honeysuckle Taint to Shinny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanking the good folks at Booomin&#8217; Onion for nominating<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>&#8220;Shinny&#8221; for Best of the Net 2026:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebloominonion.com\/distinguished-work\">https:\/\/www.thebloominonion.com\/distinguished-work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shinny is the concluding poem in a sequence<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of seven I&#8217;ve dedicated to the late Houston born, bred and based poet Michael Berryhill:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/honeysuckle-taint-from-backyard-suite\/\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/honeysuckle-taint-from-backyard-suite\/<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2665\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2665\" src=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait-843x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait-843x1024.jpg 843w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait-768x933.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lynns-Portrait.jpg 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Beryhill, by Lynn Randolph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanking the good folks at Booomin&#8217; Onion for nominating\u00a0 &#8220;Shinny&#8221; for Best of the Net 2026: https:\/\/www.thebloominonion.com\/distinguished-work Shinny is the concluding poem in a sequence\u00a0 of seven I&#8217;ve dedicated to the late Houston born, bred and based poet Michael Berryhill: https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/honeysuckle-taint-from-backyard-suite\/ &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2663\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}