{"id":105,"date":"2012-03-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=105"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:16:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:16:59","slug":"fiona-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/fiona-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Sinclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Day Trip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the road, uncle\u2019s sat nav commentary directs<br \/>\nus back to his salesman days,<br \/>\nI\u2019ve stayed there often<br \/>\nThey always bought tea towels.<br \/>\nAt Chichester Cathedral I insist on photographs of aunt and myself ;<br \/>\nbecause discounting chavs , petty criminals,<br \/>\nand those who keep us at Christmas card distance,<br \/>\nshe is my only relative,<br \/>\nand time like a bowling ball is scattering her 70s .<br \/>\nAfter lunch at Bosham Quay,<br \/>\nan hour lost in a bijou boutique<br \/>\nas we ransack clothes rails<br \/>\ndaring each other to buy.<br \/>\nOutside, uncle has the engine running,<br \/>\nhe points the car homeward<br \/>\nQuick route or pretty?<br \/>\nI try to squeeze the last dregs out of the trip<br \/>\nsuggesting tea and a look round Lewes.<br \/>\nBut we shuffle out of the caf\u00e9<br \/>\nrelieved to find that the day has already been snuffed out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Fiona Sinclair&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koopress.co.uk\/Sinclair,%20Fiona,%20Dirty%20Laundry.htm\">Dirty Laundry<\/a> is published by Koo Press.\u00a0 She is a regular reviewer for IS&amp;T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day Trip On the road, uncle\u2019s sat nav commentary directs us back to his salesman days, I\u2019ve stayed there often They always bought tea towels. At Chichester Cathedral I insist on photographs of aunt and myself ; because discounting chavs , petty criminals, and those who keep us at Christmas card distance, she is my [&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-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","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=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}