{"id":11356,"date":"2016-07-18T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2016-06-26T11:40:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T11:40:45","slug":"11356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/11356\/","title":{"rendered":"Luke Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Deer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Granted, some beasts are quick.<br \/>\nBut rounds were cheap as breaths<br \/>\nfor him that night, and still the ropes<br \/>\nwere coiled like laughing snakes.<\/p>\n<p>I sewed his returning eyes to mine,<br \/>\nunstitched, busied myself again.<br \/>\nThe pattern for a dress drew him \u2013<br \/>\nacupunctured, its paper thin as sin<\/p>\n<p>which crinkled as he looked.<br \/>\nThe gas fire barked. I hushed.<br \/>\nI narrowed my thread to a fibre<br \/>\nand tucked it round his foot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Harrison<\/strong> is under twenty-two and lives in north London. He writes regularly at<a href=\" freedomnews.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\"> freedomnews.org.uk<\/a>. His articles have featured on <em>Contrainfo<\/em> and <em>Machorka<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Deer Granted, some beasts are quick. But rounds were cheap as breaths for him that night, and still the ropes were coiled like laughing snakes. I sewed his returning eyes to mine, unstitched, busied myself again. The pattern for a dress drew him \u2013 acupunctured, its paper thin as sin which [&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-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","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=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11359,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions\/11359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}