{"id":6907,"date":"2015-10-01T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2015-10-02T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T10:55:37","slug":"hold-onto-your-swollen-gourds-and-plumped-hazel-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=6907","title":{"rendered":"Hold on to your swollen gourds and plumped hazel shells . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JDP-Oct-2015-cover.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6896\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JDP-Oct-2015-cover.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"JDP Oct 2015 cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JDP-Oct-2015-cover.jpg?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JDP-Oct-2015-cover.jpg?resize=682%2C1024 682w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/JDP-Oct-2015-cover.jpg?w=1199 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>&#8216;Cause the October issue is in the chair, folks. (Apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/learning\/guide\/240196#poem\">Keats<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fragile-Things-Short-Fictions-Wonders\/dp\/0060515236\">Gaiman<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6881\">issue Seventy-One<\/a>! This month is also our sixth anniversary, which has us so excited we just peed a little. (For you mathemagicians frantically gesticulating in the second row, the issue count is off because we briefly flirted with going quarterly during a transitional phase in 2011.)<\/p>\n<p>We are deliriously happy to welcome five new voices to our warm electric pages. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6882\">Matthew Myers<\/a> kicks things off with demented and nightmarishly detailed directions to &#8220;The Best BBQ in This Town.&#8221; Next, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6883\">Brian D. Morrison<\/a> explores the bucolic longings of Mary Shelley&#8217;s tragic creation in a poem that perfectly complements the season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6884\">Shannon Noel Brady<\/a> keeps things moving with a sweetly sad flash piece in which a spoiled child&#8217;s destructive greed is observed from an unusual yet familiar vantage point. After that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6885\">Michael Berkowitz<\/a> finds a surprising impermanence of place in &#8220;Paper Cities.&#8221; Closing out the issue is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6886\">Chad Schuster<\/a>, who spoons up a &#8220;Taste of Fame&#8221; that packs the sort of <em>BAM! <\/em>you can&#8217;t get from an ordinary spice weasel. This month&#8217;s delicately creepy cover art slid from the talented mind and fingers of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6887\">Jakub Gazmercik<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ogle it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6881\">online<\/a> or pluck<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/jdp_issue_October2015.pdf\"> the .pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Cause the October issue is in the chair, folks. (Apologies to Keats and Gaiman.) Welcome to issue Seventy-One! This month is also our sixth anniversary, which has us so excited we just peed a little. (For you mathemagicians frantically gesticulating &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=6907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,588],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jdp","tag-fiction","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15duy-1Np","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}