{"id":1598,"date":"2009-02-19T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-02-19T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T12:07:00","slug":"patrick-coldstreams-gone-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/patrick-coldstreams-gone-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Coldstream's gone running"},"content":{"rendered":"


Running<\/span>

Those springloaded, aerodynamic Nikes<\/span>
Touch my old heart for their simple fore-runner,<\/span>
The plain gymshoe, plimsoll or sandshoe, which<\/span>
We whitened then with bottled white, first cousin<\/span>
To the chalky compound that coated the trundling wheel<\/span>
Of the contraption that ruled the lines on the grass<\/span>
Of the sports field, where panting on flying feet,<\/span>
Sparkling with Blanco (name returns now), I breasted the<\/span>
Winners\u2019 tape, triumphant first for the only sporting occasion <\/span>
In my career, who now at seventy strap myself into trainers <\/span>
To jog round the block.  <\/span>

<\/font>*
\nPatrick Coldstream says “Once a journalist, and a promoter of causes,
\nhave written a memoir, attended  the Poetry School and have eight
\ngrandchildren.”
<\/font>
<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RunningThose springloaded, aerodynamic NikesTouch my old heart for their simple fore-runner,The plain gymshoe, plimsoll or sandshoe, whichWe whitened then with bottled white, first cousinTo the chalky compound that coated the trundling wheelOf the contraption that ruled the lines on the grassOf the sports field, where panting on flying feet,Sparkling with Blanco (name returns now), I […]<\/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-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","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=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}