{"id":865,"date":"2020-04-30T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T08:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=865"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T08:56:59","slug":"season-xvi-alphaday-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xvi-alphaday-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XVI &#8211; Alphaday 12"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi\nAlphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome\nto Alphaday 12, Season XVI.&nbsp; We\u2019re\nnearing the end of the season and in these strange times when Covid-19 causes\nupheaval in everyone\u2019s lives we will no doubt appreciate the opportunity to\nimmerse ourselves in the writerly world of Alpha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s\nagenda may be reduced, but there\u2019s still an abundance of writerly treats that\nwill occupy your minds with positive, creative thoughts that we can share with\nlike-minded enthusiasts of the art and intricacies of writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nfollows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This\n     bulletin from me<\/li><li>The\n     results of the Drabble challenge from Phil<\/li><li>The\n     collated entries for the Open Page, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> edition from Christine<\/li><li>The\n     Log with your writing news from Phil<\/li><li>An\n     overview of Writers\u2019 Reads 6 from Linda<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nusual this will all be delivered straight to your inbox in the course of the\nday. All you have to do is to enjoy the treats and let them stimulate you into\naction as I\u2019m sure they will somehow or other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\nhave no particular Alpha news and expect there\u2019ll be plenty in the Log.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngeneral news is dominated by the Covid-19 situation which we\u2019ll have to live\nwith for quite a long time, I suspect. Can the fear of a deadly virus turn us\nall into sociophobic hermits? Will the amount of art diffused via the media\ncreate a discerning population of art lovers? Or will too much of everything\nmake people skim surfaces without taking anything in? Documentaries would\nreplace travelling; robots would deliver all goods to households; beards would\ngrow unchecked and comfortable kaftans would be worn by all as we turn into\nmodern, screen-addicted cave-dwellers. The crisis we\u2019re going through is rife\nwith material for dystopian speculations \u2013 some more wildly exotic than others;\nnone very comfortable for those who long for the good old days; or for those\nwho fear that the resulting poverty could kill even more people than the virus\nis capable of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s\njust be writers and be creative. We can, if we try, adorn our own lives \u2013\nperhaps other lives as well \u2013 by our creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 12, Season XVI.&nbsp; We\u2019re nearing the end of the season and in these strange times when Covid-19 causes upheaval in everyone\u2019s lives we will no doubt appreciate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}