{"id":296,"date":"2013-10-12T12:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2025-02-24T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:36:37","slug":"my-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"my Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/images\/carltonarms.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>there&#8230; all alone<br>in the Big Apple I was<br>on the 3rd floor<br>corner room<br>of the Carlton Arms Hotel<br>with a window view<br>that looks up 3rd Ave&nbsp; &nbsp;~<br>from 25th street<br>rainy outside<br>overcast sky<br>I think of writing<br>on this day of no plans<br>I ponder<br>do I turn on<br>my laptop<br>or do I stay in bed<br>and use my Smartphone<br>to create a poem&nbsp;&nbsp; ~<br>you see&#8230;. nowadays<br>I use my Smartphone<br>more and more<br>to type my words<br>they get stored<br>on it too<br>even at<br>poetry readings<br>I read from my&nbsp;Smartphone<br><em>i.e., a reading in Baltimore<br>put on by my peace activist\/<br>poet friend David Eberhardt<\/em><br>which included my poet friend<br>Constantine Pantazonis<br>instead of a sheet of paper<br>the whole process seems<br>so much more spontaneous<br>easy and convenient<br>I only use<br>my computer<br>to write prose<br>on my blog\/web site<br>&#8217;cause the keypad<br>on the phone<br>still sucks for all that&nbsp; ~<br>I&#8217;ve started a whole series<br>of photos with poetic words<br>called <em>Images with Words<\/em><br>posted at my blog<br>advertised<br>on my Facebook page<br>&#8230;&#8230;later this year<br>to be an eBook<br>only using<br>my Droid Bionic<br>who&#8217;d have thunk<br>within the mural<br>painted walls<br>of such a storied<br>NYC hotel<br>would sit not Gellhorn&#8230;.<br>with her fingers tapping out<br>on a typewriter<br>a war story for a magazine<br>but&nbsp; &nbsp;~Keith Alan Hamilton~<br>as he uses<br>this high-tech gadget<br>to create words<br>to illustrate through image<br>his story\/poem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Image &amp; Words by&nbsp; ~Keith Alan Hamilton~<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carltonarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlton Arms Hotel<\/a> &#8211; NYC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there&#8230; all alonein the Big Apple I wason the 3rd floorcorner roomof the Carlton Arms Hotelwith a window viewthat looks up 3rd Ave&nbsp; &nbsp;~from 25th streetrainy outsideovercast skyI think of writingon this day of no plansI ponderdo I turn onmy laptopor do I stay in bedand use my Smartphoneto create a poem&nbsp;&nbsp; ~you see&#8230;. nowadaysI &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/?p=296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;my Smartphone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagewords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10533,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/10533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithalanhamilton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}