{"id":10141,"date":"2016-02-27T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10141"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:42:10","slug":"helen-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helen-kay\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>An Interesting Case of Auditory Processing Difficulty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A writer reckons words are friends.<br \/>\nHe clearly has not met da gangstas<br \/>\nmuscling in on the mother son trip<br \/>\nto an ear-splitting Arndale noodle bar.<\/p>\n<p>All she did was point out Forsyth\u2019s<br \/>\nthrough a snotty Metrobus window.<br \/>\n\u2018Look, there\u2019s a lot of instruments.\u2019<br \/>\nHe replied, \u2018Wha\u2019? A lot of insulants?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so she thought he said \u2018insolence\u2019.<br \/>\nWhat he really meant was insulation.<\/p>\n<p>She blames this confusion on a baby<br \/>\nnext to them who kept crying mama<br \/>\nand the creased, lip balm mother<br \/>\nwho kept crying, shut up, shut up!<\/p>\n<p>In Forsyth\u2019s, the yawning ukeles<br \/>\nand smug saxes in braces sneered,<br \/>\nso she asked about GCSE\u2019s. He replied<br \/>\nwith silence. Or was that insolence?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Kay<\/strong> has written poems about chickens and a pamphlet full of them was published this year by I<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/#\/about-us\/4536232462\" target=\"_blank\">ndigo Dreams.<\/a>\u00a0 Helen comes from a onesie free household and is a dyslexia tutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An Interesting Case of Auditory Processing Difficulty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A writer reckons words are friends. He clearly has not met da gangstas muscling in on the mother son trip to an ear-splitting Arndale noodle bar. All she did was point out Forsyth\u2019s through a snotty Metrobus window. \u2018Look, there\u2019s a lot of instruments.\u2019 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10144,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}