{"id":12152,"date":"2016-10-10T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2016-09-29T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T10:43:40","slug":"messages-chris-hardy-for-national-poetry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/messages-chris-hardy-for-national-poetry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Messages: Chris Hardy for National Poetry Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mail to the Moon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I read your poems and one<br \/>\nreminded me of something<br \/>\nI had written<br \/>\nso I put it in the post.<\/p>\n<p>Then reading on I saw the dates<br \/>\nand realised you were recently<br \/>\ndead and so my poem would<br \/>\nland in a hallway where<br \/>\nit would only remind<br \/>\nanyone there that you<br \/>\nhad moved away for ever,<\/p>\n<p>as if I\u2019d mailed it<br \/>\nto the moon,<br \/>\nor the post box was<br \/>\na <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isotretinoinonlinebuy.com\">order accutane no rx<\/a> portal to infinite<br \/>\nemptiness, hovering inside its<br \/>\nred iron thorax, but that\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>poetry for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Hardy<\/strong>\u2019s poems have been published widely and have won prizes. His fourth collection will be published in 2017 by Indigo Dreams. Chris is in LiTTLe MACHiNe, performing their settings of poetry around the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mail to the Moon I read your poems and one reminded me of something I had written so I put it in the post. Then reading on I saw the dates and realised you were recently dead and so my poem would land in a hallway where it would only remind anyone [&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-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","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=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12154,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}