{"id":3925,"date":"2024-02-23T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2024-02-23T15:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T20:03:36","slug":"back-at-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=3925","title":{"rendered":"Back at the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year Analog magazine runs AnLab, its readers&#8217; choice poll that allows readers to select their five favorites in each of its departments. (Except I think the cover, the cover may be three? If this was relevant to me, if I was doing magazine covers, regular readers would know it already, I promise.) This year, my nerd grief poem &#8220;Object Permanence&#8221; has made their list! You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/about-analog\/analytical-laboratory-finalists\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.analogsf.com\/about-analog\/analytical-laboratory-finalists\/\">here<\/a> along with the other finalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re paying close attention, that&#8217;s the second magazine for which I&#8217;ve been in the &#8220;reader favorites&#8221; poll this year. I find this incredibly gratifying. I think most of all what any of writers wants is to be read and to touch readers&#8211;but particularly in speculative poetry. No one imagines fame, fortune, and glory will accrue from writing speculative poetry. We&#8217;re just trying to say something that will be meaningful to someone else. Analog&#8217;s readers, like Uncanny&#8217;s before them on the fiction side, have said that I did that this year. Thank you so much, readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year Analog magazine runs AnLab, its readers&#8217; choice poll that allows readers to select their five favorites in each of its departments. (Except I think the cover, the cover may be three? If this was relevant to me, if I was doing magazine covers, regular readers would know it already, I promise.) This year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}