{"id":12461,"date":"2017-02-22T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"mick-kulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/mick-kulp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Kulp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The octopus flashed<br \/>\nCalm blue and brown, teasing me<br \/>\nLike a fan dancer.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Pulse pounding, sweating,<br \/>\nI dig in my pocket for<br \/>\nThe engagement ring.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The ruffian wind<br \/>\nElbows through dogwoods leaving<br \/>\nDrifts of white petals<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>The singer wails out<br \/>\n<em>Para bailar la bamba<\/em><br \/>\nTequila goes down<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mick Kulp<\/strong> is a writer and father of two mostly grown children who have survived his shenanigans through smarts they inherited from their mother.\u00a0 His nonfiction articles, fictional stories, and poems have appeared\u00a0 in consumer magazines, newspapers, and literary journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; * The octopus flashed Calm blue and brown, teasing me Like a fan dancer. * Pulse pounding, sweating, I dig in my pocket for The engagement ring. * The ruffian wind Elbows through dogwoods leaving Drifts of white petals * The singer wails out Para bailar la bamba Tequila goes down &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","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=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13246,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}