{"id":11625,"date":"2016-08-19T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=11625"},"modified":"2016-07-29T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T09:32:28","slug":"matthew-friday-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-friday-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banana Man on the Bakerloo Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the delicate, cautious care<br \/>\nof a first-time mother<br \/>\nreaching for her crying baby,<br \/>\nthe man on the Bakerloo line train<br \/>\ntip-toes his fingers into his bag.<br \/>\nWith surgical precision he extracts<br \/>\na blackening, limp banana skin.<br \/>\nNot looking up once from his paper,<br \/>\nhe sneaks his hand behind his back<br \/>\nand deposits the skin there.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 70px;\">Reading continues<\/span><br \/>\nas if nothing has happened,<br \/>\njust like the cigarette butt flickers,<br \/>\nthe chewing gum spitters<br \/>\nthe wrapping-paper discarders.<br \/>\nI should speak out, start a revolution<br \/>\nof responsible rubbish but<br \/>\nlike the million of tongue-less<br \/>\ncitizens, I just watch, and now<br \/>\ndump these words on this page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong> is a writer, professional storyteller and primary school teacher. By all means check out the results at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfriday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.matthewfriday.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Banana Man on the Bakerloo Line With the delicate, cautious care of a first-time mother reaching for her crying baby, the man on the Bakerloo line train tip-toes his fingers into his bag. With surgical precision he extracts a blackening, limp banana skin. Not looking up once from his paper, he sneaks his [&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-11625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","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=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11627,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}