{"id":1083,"date":"2007-10-16T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2007-10-16T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T11:23:00","slug":"the-dancer-by-maureen-weldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/the-dancer-by-maureen-weldon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dancer by Maureen Weldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">THE DANCER<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am tired,<br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">my brain hangs loose,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><\/font><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><font size=\"2\">locked in my rucksack.<br \/>This is the hour for the owl to fly,<br \/>to hoot to winking moon<br \/>through clouds of mist.<br \/>This is night,<br \/>the quiet time ..<br \/>Because I am on my own,<br \/>while night-clubs choke<br \/>with laughter,<br \/>and the girl in white throws her shoe<br \/>at the man who wanted to fill it<br \/>with beer, but could not,<br \/>no matter how hard he tried.<br \/>Then the many houses,<br \/>blinking with lovemaking.<br \/>And babies and grannies<br \/>and granddads.<br \/>But I like being on my own<br \/>in this quiet time,<br \/>because tomorrow<br \/>I will wrap my ankles<br \/>round the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Maureen Weldon lives in Shotton, north Wales, near her daughter. She has been published in many small press magazines, has five chap-books and enjoys giving readings. This is her first appearance in IS&amp;T.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DANCER I am tired, my brain hangs loose, locked in my rucksack.This is the hour for the owl to fly,to hoot to winking moonthrough clouds of mist.This is night,the quiet time ..Because I am on my own,while night-clubs chokewith laughter,and the girl in white throws her shoeat the man who wanted to fill itwith [&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-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","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=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}