{"id":2010,"date":"2013-10-07T00:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2017-07-11T22:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:40:55","slug":"dont-alice-happy-birthday-kellycreighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/dont-alice-happy-birthday-kellycreighton\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Don\u2019t You Wish Alice a Happy Birthday? by KellyCreighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcreighton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2011 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcreighton-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"kcreighton\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcreighton-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kcreighton.jpg 352w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 211px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 211\/300;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Why Don\u2019t You Wish Alice a Happy Birthday?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by KellyCreighton<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t have a Facebook page until you died:<br \/>\nyour timeline says you were born after your death &#8211;<br \/>\nlike some superhuman-saviour-reincarnation.<br \/>\nFacebook ask people to get in touch with you;<br \/>\nWrite on her wall. Recommend a friend for Alice,<br \/>\nit says. But people pause; they don&#8217;t know whether<br \/>\nyou get broadband in heaven or not. It would have<br \/>\nto be broadband or better\u2026right? They post the<br \/>\nodd message anyhow, about a really bright star on the<br \/>\ndrive to a concert &#8211; you would&#8217;ve danced like a maniac,<br \/>\nAlice. Do you remember the time we couldn&#8217;t stop<br \/>\ngiggling in class? Only the good die young. Like you;<br \/>\nwho only made teensy mistakes: you were human.<br \/>\nFacebook send your administrators requests to play<br \/>\nCandy Rush: your admins get pissed off \u2018cos you died<br \/>\nbefore Candy Rush became a thing. You probably would&#8217;ve<br \/>\nliked it. A lot. Alice, you wouldn&#8217;t like half of the people<br \/>\nwho write on your wall now. They\u2019re all on your friends list.<br \/>\nNow. You would block them if you knew the password.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s work is currently and forthcoming in literary journals The Stinging Fly, Long Story Short, Wordlegs and Ink Sweat &amp; Tears.<br \/>\nShe is writing her second novel; was awarded second place in the Abroad Writers\u2019 Conference Competition judged by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, and long listed for The RTE Guide\/Penguin Ireland short story contest.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kellycreighton.webs.com\">http:\/\/kellycreighton.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly\u2019s work is currently and forthcoming in literary journals The Stinging Fly, Long Story Short, Wordlegs and Ink Sweat &#038; Tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-death-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}