{"id":10149,"date":"2016-02-29T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:52:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:52:59","slug":"stephen-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stephen-daniels\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grounded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday when we were 9,<br \/>\nwe stole a real imaginary lorry<br \/>\nthat smelled of circus.<\/p>\n<p>It had an elephant engine<br \/>\nwith a flame-juggler sound.<br \/>\nIt had unicycle seats<br \/>\nand lion-tamer windows<br \/>\nwhich we stole together<br \/>\nbut stopped before the trapeze started.<\/p>\n<p>Then we saw the shadow runners.<\/p>\n<p>A tight-rope chase caught us<br \/>\nwith one leg over the fence<br \/>\nand the other not.<\/p>\n<p>An ankle-drag pull<br \/>\nand we\u2019re chained to the big-top prison<br \/>\nwaiting for acrobats to take us home.<br \/>\nMade to place our heads<br \/>\ninto the roaring mouth of our lion angry Mum.<\/p>\n<p>Our punishment, a ringmaster ear-clip<br \/>\nand a bedroom full of sad clown faces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Daniels<\/strong> was born in Swindon, England in 1980. He is a marketing director, the editor of Amaryllis Poetry. His poetry has been published in various online magazines and websites. Find out more here<a href=\"http:\/\/stephenkirkdaniels.com\/\">\u00a0www.stephenkirkdaniels.com<\/a> @stephendaniels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Grounded Yesterday when we were 9, we stole a real imaginary lorry that smelled of circus. It had an elephant engine with a flame-juggler sound. It had unicycle seats and lion-tamer windows which we stole together but stopped before the trapeze started. Then we saw the shadow runners. A tight-rope chase caught [&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-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","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=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10151,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}