{"id":12070,"date":"2016-11-13T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12070"},"modified":"2016-11-07T10:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:20:54","slug":"sue-spiers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sue-spiers-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Spiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiscal Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grandma\u2019s cat sat on the shelf<br \/>\nabove the bread and biscuit tin,<br \/>\nblack and sleek and hollow.<br \/>\nOn my birthday Gran would pour<br \/>\nits innards on the kitchen table.<br \/>\nI\u2019d count copper coins into tens,<br \/>\nmake up bags of pounds to keep.<\/p>\n<p>Granddad would tisk and tut<br \/>\ntelling me to wash behind my ears<br \/>\nwhere he could plant spuds<br \/>\nand invariably found a dug-up coin.<br \/>\nI\u2019d check each night to see<br \/>\nif others lurked behind that flap<br \/>\nbut only Granddad found them.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how I thought of income,<br \/>\nnot wondering how Gran saved<br \/>\nwhat nuggets she could spare<br \/>\nor Granddad\u2019s misdirection;<br \/>\nbelieving he could conjure coins<br \/>\nbut what he found was nothing extra<br \/>\nmerely moved from hand to hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Spiers <\/strong>has a self-published collection called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1291044302\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Jiggle Sac<\/em> available from Amazon<\/a>* and is the delighted winner of Hysteria 4\u2019s poetry competition.\u00a0 If you Twitter try @spiropoetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Fiscal Policy Grandma\u2019s cat sat on the shelf above the bread and biscuit tin, black and sleek and hollow. On my birthday Gran would pour its innards on the kitchen table. I\u2019d count copper coins into tens, make up bags of pounds to keep. Granddad would tisk and tut telling me to [&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-12070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070","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=12070"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12570,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions\/12570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}