{"id":1293,"date":"2008-07-03T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T09:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:45:25","slug":"padrikas-staying-in-to-watch-tv-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/padrikas-staying-in-to-watch-tv-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Padrika&#39;s staying in to watch TV tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Tanka for a Thursday night<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">the television<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">jams the corners of my room<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">with tiny, scared ghosts.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">They crowd the dark with questions<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">and flickering, fearful smiles.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><br style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u2022 Padrika Tarrant is a regular contributor to IS&amp;T \u2013 her latest <\/span><\/font><font style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" size=\"2\">collection of short fiction \u2013 <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Broken Things<\/span> \u2013&nbsp; has been long-listed for the Frank O&#39;Connor prize for short fiction.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanka for a Thursday night&nbsp;the televisionjams the corners of my roomwith tiny, scared ghosts.They crowd the dark with questionsand flickering, fearful smiles.\u2022 Padrika Tarrant is a regular contributor to IS&amp;T \u2013 her latest collection of short fiction \u2013 Broken Things \u2013&nbsp; has been long-listed for the Frank O&#39;Connor prize for short fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1293","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\/1293","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24100,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/24100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}