{"id":9012,"date":"2025-05-01T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2025-05-01T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:52:01","slug":"april-now-more-the-may-rier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"April: Now More the May-rier!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25.png?resize=584%2C876\" alt=\"cover of issue 128 with photo of person in pink dress holding upside-down doll's head planter of spring flowers. Head and legs of person holding planter are cropped out of frame.\" class=\"wp-image-8992 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25-scaled.png?resize=683%2C1024 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25-scaled.png?resize=200%2C300 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25-scaled.png?resize=768%2C1152 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25-scaled.png?w=1707 1707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/jdp-cover-april-25-scaled.png?w=1168 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8984\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8984\">one-hundred-twenty-eighth issue<\/a> is in full bloom! Fall might be the spooky season, but spring is the season of jump scares. You\u2019re ambling down the sidewalk on an overcast day, enjoying the room-temperature air and chanting the four items you plan to purchase at the co-op under your breath so you won\u2019t forget them. Then, right between\u00a0<em>miso paste\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>vegan jerky,<\/em>\u00a0the smell of lilacs launches itself into your face like a purple panther. Reeling from the concussive blast of fragrance, you take a few stumbling steps toward the street, plunging into a puddle of violets where pollen-drunk bees bump chummily into your shins. Instead of Bernard Herrmann\u2019s shrieking strings, you hear a merry quartet of robins in a nearby dogwood. \u201cGotcha again, you fuckin\u2019 dunce!\u201d they seem to chirp.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s this element of surprise\u2014the sudden appearance of an unexpected image that delights the senses\u2014that ties the stories and poems of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8984\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8984\">this issue<\/a> together. I won\u2019t spoil any of them here; the joy is in the discovery. (Pro tip: read these out loud if you can; this issue has exceptional sound and mouth feel.) Also, shout-out to the gorgeous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=8991\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"8991\">cover art<\/a> by Sasha Moroz!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our one-hundred-twenty-eighth issue is in full bloom! Fall might be the spooky season, but spring is the season of jump scares. You\u2019re ambling down the sidewalk on an overcast day, enjoying the room-temperature air and chanting the four items you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?p=9012\">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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[301,768,1202,572,588],"class_list":["post-9012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jdp","tag-cover-art","tag-fiction","tag-haiku","tag-new-issue","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p15duy-2lm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012","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=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}