{"id":10229,"date":"2016-03-05T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10229"},"modified":"2016-02-26T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T11:27:14","slug":"stephen-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stephen-oliver\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Oliver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>clayground copse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>every evening you wage your campaign<br \/>\nagainst the molehills<br \/>\ncleaving each disfiguring mound<br \/>\nwith a smooth sweep of your spade as<\/p>\n<p>jackdaws carouse in the dusk<br \/>\ntheir ash tree roost black<br \/>\nagainst the stillbright sky<br \/>\nthe cracked-hubcap moon<\/p>\n<p>you say you admire the jackdaw<br \/>\nhis calculated roadside gambles<br \/>\nbut still you stand by clayground copse<br \/>\nand tomorrow there will be molehills<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Oliver<\/strong> originates from Durham and now lives in West Berkshire. He has recently completed the Diploma in Creative Writing\u00a0at the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; clayground copse every evening you wage your campaign against the molehills cleaving each disfiguring mound with a smooth sweep of your spade as jackdaws carouse in the dusk their ash tree roost black against the stillbright sky the cracked-hubcap moon you say you admire the jackdaw his calculated roadside gambles but still [&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-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","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=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}