{"id":1329,"date":"2008-08-04T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:45:59","slug":"jo-mortimer-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jo-mortimer-is-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Mortimer is gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gone <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><\/span>I am going to Death on a tiger.<br \/>\nMy journey is not hard; we talk all the way.<br \/>\nThere are scratches on us but we look forward; the scratches don\u2019t hurt.<br \/>\nAn eyelash of mine falls on the tiger\u2019s head.<br \/>\nI pick it up, wish for safe passage but drop it.<br \/>\nThe tiger shakes its head; the eyelash has gone.<br \/>\nHe tells me we have nearly arrived; there is no more talking.<br \/>\nI never knew tigers could leap so high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Jo Mortimer<\/strong> has been having a good time with her writing, recently. You can see what&#8217;s what, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/certainthings-jo.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/certainthings-jo.blogspot.com\/<\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone I am going to Death on a tiger. My journey is not hard; we talk all the way. There are scratches on us but we look forward; the scratches don\u2019t hurt. An eyelash of mine falls on the tiger\u2019s head. I pick it up, wish for safe passage but drop it. The tiger shakes [&hellip;]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","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=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23883,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/23883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}