{"id":2329,"date":"2022-03-23T09:19:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2022-03-23T09:19:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:19:39","slug":"midwatch-in-verse-update-3-23-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/midwatch-in-verse-update-3-23-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwatch in Verse Update (3\/23\/2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Midwatch in Verse Project continues to move forward. As indicated in earlier posts, my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/garyguinn.com\/\">Gary Guinn<\/a> and I signed a contract with McFarland Publishing for a book-length treatment of the old Navy tradition. Here is a brief explanation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Deck Log from a US Navy vessel chronicles exacting administrative detail regarding the status of the ship, its location, speed, etc. However, for a four hour period at the beginning of each year, the Officer of the Deck (OOD) is allowed to be creative by writing the Mid-Watch report (0000 \u2013 0400) in verse if they choose to do so. This series highlights examples of this tradition and the officers who posted them. I focus on WWII era deck logs. For a more thorough history of the practice check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/content\/history\/nhhc\/research\/archives\/resources-for-the-fleet\/deck-logs\/new-years-contest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article from the Naval History and Heritage Command<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We now have an official title for the book. <strong><em>Midwatch in Verse: New Year\u2019s Deck Log Poetry of the United States Navy, 1941\u20131946<\/em><\/strong>. We are currently awaiting cover art for the book. Once we have that, an official page should soon thereafter appear on the <a href=\"https:\/\/mcfarlandbooks.com\/\">McFarland website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dd392016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1108 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dd392016-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dd392016-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/dd392016.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midwatch in Verse Project continues to move forward. As indicated in earlier posts, my friend Gary Guinn and I signed a contract with McFarland Publishing for a book-length treatment of the old Navy tradition. Here is a brief explanation: <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/midwatch-in-verse-update-3-23-2022\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[13,98],"tags":[169,102,167,118],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-naval-history","tag-deck-logs-in-verse","tag-pacific-theater-wwii","tag-us-navy-deck-logs","tag-wwii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IN7p-Bz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}