{"id":12466,"date":"2017-02-24T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12466"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:18:25","slug":"saba-sams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/saba-sams\/","title":{"rendered":"Saba Sams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here, the cat is a rosebud<br \/>\non the corner of the bed.<br \/>\nHere, I lie still, swallowing air,<br \/>\nas the sun paints squares<br \/>\non the walls around me.<br \/>\nHere, I dream only of trees;<br \/>\nthere is wallpaper pasted<br \/>\non the wets of my eye lids.<br \/>\nHere, the earth is flat<br \/>\nas my stomach. Trapped,<br \/>\nmy blossoms wait to bloom;<br \/>\nblinking in the distant moon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saba Sams<\/strong> is currently studying for a English Literature and Creative Writing degree at the University of Manchester. Her short story &#8216;What Do You Know About Love?&#8217; has recently been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgelitmag.com\/flm\/2016\/03\/21\/what-do-you-know-about-love\/\">Forge Literary Magazine.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Patience Here, the cat is a rosebud on the corner of the bed. Here, I lie still, swallowing air, as the sun paints squares on the walls around me. Here, I dream only of trees; there is wallpaper pasted on the wets of my eye lids. Here, the earth is flat as [&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-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","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=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13251,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/13251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}