{"id":15491,"date":"2018-01-28T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=15491"},"modified":"2017-12-21T17:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:21:35","slug":"sue-wallace-shaddad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sue-wallace-shaddad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Wallace-Shaddad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shark Bait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoisted high, I gape<br \/>\nmouth open, skywards.<br \/>\nMy teeth flash white<br \/>\ninstilling fear<br \/>\nin unprepared passers-by.<br \/>\nI could dive off<br \/>\nthe fishmonger\u2019s frontage<br \/>\ntake a satisfying bite.<br \/>\nIt is a sad end<br \/>\nto my glory days in the deep<br \/>\nbut at least I am remembered<br \/>\namongst the shrimp and bait.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Sue Wallace-Shaddad<\/strong> is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society. She has had poems published in <em>The Dawntreader, Ink Sweat and Tears,<\/em> local anthologies and recently had a poem commended in the Poetry Space 2017 competition.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Note: written from a watercolour by Michele Webber<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Shark Bait Hoisted high, I gape mouth open, skywards. My teeth flash white instilling fear in unprepared passers-by. I could dive off the fishmonger\u2019s frontage take a satisfying bite. It is a sad end to my glory days in the deep but at least I am remembered amongst the shrimp and bait. &nbsp; &nbsp; [&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-15491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491","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=15491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15492,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15491\/revisions\/15492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}