{"id":104,"date":"2012-03-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=104"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:17:37","slug":"bridget-khursheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bridget-khursheed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Khursheed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Snow on the Eildons like a dusty dog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The otter was on the cauld today in the end of the snow hunting for<br \/>\npackages in overlooked thaw larders<\/p>\n<p>Found the stoat trail again in the snow this morning and it spiralled<br \/>\nround and round &#8211; maybe dancing, maybe charming a rabbit<\/p>\n<p>Mouse motorways uncovered in Bessie Reid field &#8211; snow has melted to<br \/>\nshow intricate grass bobsleigh run forms sculpted writhing; rodent roadmap.<\/p>\n<p>Burn edge thick with little birds: wren (alone, territorial), later<br \/>\ngoldfinch, chaffinches&#8230;all searching for granular fast unfrozen food.<\/p>\n<p>Gang of Scandinavian blackbirds have taken over the garden<br \/>\nall puffed out against the cold as if on steroids<\/p>\n<p>Obliged to wear the long johns of an adolescent boy<\/p>\n<p>Rolled and slid home an armchair scavenged from the dump<br \/>\n&#8211; at last the snowy weather is good for something<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Bridget Khursheed<\/span> is a British Australian poet and geek. Bad on towers. Good on mountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow on the Eildons like a dusty dog The otter was on the cauld today in the end of the snow hunting for packages in overlooked thaw larders Found the stoat trail again in the snow this morning and it spiralled round and round &#8211; maybe dancing, maybe charming a rabbit Mouse motorways uncovered in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}