{"id":14457,"date":"2017-08-23T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14457"},"modified":"2017-07-22T16:08:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T16:08:25","slug":"sally-michaelson-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sally-michaelson-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Michaelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Good Night<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mum liked quiet children,<br \/>\nsilent bodies,<br \/>\nno vomiting, no wheezing<\/p>\n<p>I knew how to breathe through<br \/>\nan upset stomach<br \/>\nbut asthma came at night<\/p>\n<p>uninvited, a whistle-blower<br \/>\nin my lungs telling my throat<br \/>\nto snap shut.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid being kept awake<br \/>\nby my racket<br \/>\nshe fed me &#8216;ephredine&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p>instead of being short of breath<br \/>\nI woke drenched in sweat<br \/>\nto see her ghost looming<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_3oh- _58nk\"><strong>Sally Michaelson<\/strong>\u00a0is a full time conference interpreter in Brussels and mum to a son and daughter. She writes poetry in her spare time and has been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatehousepress.com\/lighthouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Lighthouse<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Good Night Mum liked quiet children, silent bodies, no vomiting, no wheezing I knew how to breathe through an upset stomach but asthma came at night uninvited, a whistle-blower in my lungs telling my throat to snap shut. To avoid being kept awake by my racket she fed me &#8216;ephredine&#8217;: instead of [&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-14457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457","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=14457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}