{"id":10233,"date":"2016-04-01T07:45:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T07:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2016-04-01T07:48:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T07:48:15","slug":"ian-stuart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ian-stuart\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Stuart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bedern. Midnight geese.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A place of alleyways<br \/>\nand turnings back,<br \/>\neach blocked<br \/>\nwith drifts of shadow<br \/>\nblack as soot.<\/p>\n<p>Moonlight streams between<br \/>\ntall cliffs of brick,<br \/>\npaints windows slick<br \/>\nwith silver.<\/p>\n<p>Caught in the city\u2019s underglow<br \/>\na dozen greylags flicker overhead,<br \/>\nno higher than the housetops.<\/p>\n<p>They call into the night \u2013<br \/>\na husky, booming note<br \/>\nbreathy as a blown reed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Stuart<\/strong> is a writer\/performer living and working in York. He has had worked published in several outlets including <em>Dream Catcher<\/em> and <em>Aesthetica<\/em> He can be contacted on Twitter at @yorkwriter99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bedern. Midnight geese. A place of alleyways and turnings back, each blocked with drifts of shadow black as soot. Moonlight streams between tall cliffs of brick, paints windows slick with silver. Caught in the city\u2019s underglow a dozen greylags flicker overhead, no higher than the housetops. They call into the night \u2013 [&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-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","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=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10567,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}