{"id":1431,"date":"2008-10-24T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2008-10-24T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T18:32:09","slug":"colin-cross-says-its-a-dead-cert-never-is-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-cross-says-its-a-dead-cert-never-is-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Cross says its a dead cert never is forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

JOHN<\/span>
 <\/span>

John<\/span>
who was a man<\/span>
who would bet<\/span>
on anything<\/span>
and had a<\/span>
staunch hatred<\/span>
of anything  German<\/span>
as his father<\/span>
was a victim<\/span>
of world war two<\/span>
died just days<\/span>
before<\/span>
England beat Germany<\/span>
5 \u2013 1 at football<\/span>
 <\/span>
it's a dead cert<\/span>
he would have<\/span>
hated to know<\/span>
he'd missed that<\/span>
 <\/span>

~ ~ ~ ~ ~<\/span>


NEVER FOREVER<\/span>
 <\/span>

the days<\/span>
when we thought<\/span>
\u2013 everything<\/span>
is forever<\/span>
until it isn't \u2013<\/span>
have long gone<\/span>
 <\/span>
now much older<\/span>
and wiser<\/span>
we realise<\/span>
that<\/span>
\u2013 nothing<\/span>
is forever<\/span>
even if it is \u2013<\/span>


* <\/span><\/font>Colin Cross lives in Norwich and is a regular IS&T contributor<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JOHN Johnwho was a manwho would beton anythingand had astaunch hatredof anything  Germanas his fatherwas a victimof world war twodied just daysbeforeEngland beat Germany5 \u2013 1 at football it's a dead certhe would havehated to knowhe'd missed that ~ ~ ~ ~ ~NEVER FOREVER the dayswhen we thought\u2013 everythingis foreveruntil it isn't \u2013have long gone now much olderand wiserwe realisethat\u2013 […]<\/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-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}