{"id":10866,"date":"2016-05-12T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2016-04-25T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:42:17","slug":"john-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"John Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Melancholy Occurrences<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4th May 1804<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nWestover house near Bath damaged by lightning an explosion louder than any cannon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wainscot was burned the bells were melted the door-post split to pieces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In one chamber all but three window panes were broken looking glass shivered to pieces wainscoting torn away and driven through the bed curtains<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every bason wine-glass and water glass was broken and brass nails forced out of the chairs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nurse was knocked down and much injured by fire and splinters\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 but two persons standing next to her were unhurt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mantell at the street door his hair in a blaze<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Seed<\/strong> is the author of eleven collections of verse, most recently, <em>Smoke Rising<\/em>: London 1940-1 (Shearsman, Bristol 2015) and Brandon Pithouse: Recollections of the Durham, (Smokestack Books, Middlesborough 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Melancholy Occurrences &nbsp; &nbsp; 4th May 1804 Westover house near Bath damaged by lightning an explosion louder than any cannon &nbsp; The wainscot was burned the bells were melted the door-post split to pieces &nbsp; In one chamber all but three window panes were broken looking glass shivered to pieces wainscoting torn away and [&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-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","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=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}