{"id":15179,"date":"2017-12-03T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15179"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:10:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:10:20","slug":"christine-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/christine-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where I\u2019m led<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My feet have a terrible habit<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">of following where my eyes lead<\/span><br \/>\nwhether I want them to,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And my eyes, they don\u2019t care<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">for Health and Safety<\/span><br \/>\nin any way whatever.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So I find myself too high<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">up too steep a hill, grabbing twigs\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nwhich aren\u2019t roots,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">after all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The steel glitter of a river,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">and I\u2019m on a leaf filled path which comes<\/span><br \/>\nand goes, hanging on<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">to wire sprigs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Or the green crest of a hill<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">with its thin helter-skelter path<\/span><br \/>\nnibbled short and freshly<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">polished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And when I\u2019m in such places<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">way too high, on paths way too narrow,<\/span><br \/>\nwith the river, rocks, sea singing low,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">I think \u2013 hold on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong><span class=\"il\">Christine<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Sanders<\/span><\/strong> moved from her home of Pembrokeshire to West Yorkshire 3 years ago and\u00a0has\u00a0now completed her M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Manchester Writing School. She is currently a teacher of English but is about to give\u00a0it all up, move back to Pembrokeshire and spend her time wandering in the wilds and writing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Where I\u2019m led My feet have a terrible habit of following where my eyes lead whether I want them to, or not. And my eyes, they don\u2019t care for Health and Safety in any way whatever. Ever. So I find myself too high up too steep a hill, grabbing twigs\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 which aren\u2019t [&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-15179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179","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=15179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15228,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179\/revisions\/15228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}