{"id":13721,"date":"2017-06-29T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13721"},"modified":"2017-04-17T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:45:47","slug":"jonathan-humble-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jonathan-humble-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Humble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blanket<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was the designated person. I\u2019d seen it before and I am hard.<br \/>\nAll over in a few seconds; a slow movement across two<\/p>\n<p>graduations, then an increased flow to a final stop at empty.<br \/>\nClear eyes to opaque in an efficient procedure\u00a0performed by<\/p>\n<p>this calm and sympathetic professional; the dog, supporting<br \/>\nhis own weight one moment, to being a\u00a0dead-weight slumped<\/p>\n<p>in my arms on a vinyl covered\u00a0veterinary table the next.\u00a0Be<br \/>\naware,\u00a0she said,\u00a0now the body is\u00a0relaxed,\u00a0it is likely his bladder<\/p>\n<p>will evacuate in your car.\u00a0I stood in the car park and placed his<br \/>\nbody, wrapped and\u00a0limp in his old dog blanket, on a large<\/p>\n<p>plastic sheet in the boot and sobbed\u00a0like a child.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Humble<\/strong> is a deputy head teacher in Cumbria.\u00a0His poetry has appeared in <em>The Big Issue In The North, Poems For Freedom, The Caterpillar Magazine,\u00a0Lighten Up Online, Obsessed With Pipework\u00a0<\/em>and on<em> BBC Radio.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Blanket I was the designated person. I\u2019d seen it before and I am hard. All over in a few seconds; a slow movement across two graduations, then an increased flow to a final stop at empty. Clear eyes to opaque in an efficient procedure\u00a0performed by this calm and sympathetic professional; the dog, [&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-13721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721","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=13721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14094,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13721\/revisions\/14094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}