{"id":16015,"date":"2018-04-16T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:31:35","slug":"brian-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/brian-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coral Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She was hard and soft,<br \/>\nbeach and rock, kids passed<br \/>\nthrough like subatomic<br \/>\nparticles channelling<br \/>\ndolphins, whales, sharks,<br \/>\ntiddlers, tropical<br \/>\ncolours, grey and sombre,<br \/>\nskin cut and skin kept in<br \/>\ntrauma; hair and loneliness<br \/>\nsucked into corners<br \/>\ncaulking floorboards<br \/>\nthis barrier reef<br \/>\nfor those caught<br \/>\nand tossed back in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian China<\/strong> lives in Leicester and performs open-mic at Word! and Leicester Shindig!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Coral Mother She was hard and soft, beach and rock, kids passed through like subatomic particles channelling dolphins, whales, sharks, tiddlers, tropical colours, grey and sombre, skin cut and skin kept in trauma; hair and loneliness sucked into corners caulking floorboards this barrier reef for those caught and tossed back in. &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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","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=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16372,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions\/16372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}