{"id":15449,"date":"2018-01-16T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15449"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:09:40","slug":"joyce-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joyce-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Screening<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I gaze at my imperfect breasts,<br \/>\nScarred by two other operations<br \/>\nAnd wonder what I\u2019ll feel<br \/>\nIf it is third time unlucky.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s odd that losing one<br \/>\nWould terrify most women,<br \/>\nBut with me, it\u2019s thoughts of<br \/>\nLeaving things undone, unsaid,<br \/>\nOf no longer being there<br \/>\nThat scare.<\/p>\n<p>So if my figure goes,<br \/>\nWho cares?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joyce Walker<\/strong> is a retired administrator. Has had poetry and stories published in a number of magazines.\u00a0 She won 1<sup>st<\/sup> prize in the Writers Brew story competition in 2002 and was runner up in an Erewash Writers Flash fiction competition in 2013.\u00a0 She took 1<sup>st<\/sup> prize in the Writers Forum Poetry competition in July 2016.\u00a0 \u00a0She loves the First World War Poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Second Screening I gaze at my imperfect breasts, Scarred by two other operations And wonder what I\u2019ll feel If it is third time unlucky. It\u2019s odd that losing one Would terrify most women, But with me, it\u2019s thoughts of Leaving things undone, unsaid, Of no longer being there That scare. So if [&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-15449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449","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=15449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15605,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions\/15605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}