{"id":300,"date":"2024-10-24T21:41:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/?p=300"},"modified":"2024-10-24T21:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T21:48:48","slug":"out-now-ugly-hedgehog-by-benjamin-brake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/out-now-ugly-hedgehog-by-benjamin-brake\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Now: Ugly Hedgehog by Benjamin Brake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out Now: <em>Ugly Hedgehog<\/em> by Benjamin Brake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ugly Hedgehog<\/em> is a folk-surreal journey through twenty-five prickly poems, exploring the tangled undergrowth of mental health. Brake weaves darkly comic observations with tender moments, taking readers on a path through depression, neglect, and dysmorphia\u2014where a forest might morph into a supermarket and life feels like a darker version of <em>Wind in the Willows<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspired by folklore and campfire horror stories, these poems offer warmth amidst the darkness, celebrating the quiet resilience that transforms us from within. <em>Ugly Hedgehog<\/em> is a love letter to illness and renewal, where hope flickers like firelight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#poetry #newrelease #mentalhealth #folklore #benjaminbrake #uglyhedgehog #shoalsofstarlings #shoalsofstarlingspress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ugly-hedgehog-final-cover.jpg?resize=750%2C558&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-297\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ugly-hedgehog-final-cover.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ugly-hedgehog-final-cover.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">unspecified<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out Now: Ugly Hedgehog by Benjamin Brake Ugly Hedgehog is a folk-surreal journey through twenty-five prickly poems, exploring the tangled undergrowth of mental health. Brake weaves darkly comic observations with tender moments, taking readers on a path through depression, neglect, and dysmorphia\u2014where a forest might morph into a supermarket and life feels like a darker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","authorName":"shoals","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shoalsofstarlings.com\/shoalsofstarlingspress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}