{"id":16253,"date":"2018-05-04T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:15:40","slug":"matthew-friday-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-friday-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Egon Shiele\u2019s House in Cesky Krumlov<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLooking down on the Vltava river<br \/>\nyellow leaves splattering<br \/>\nthe glassy surface. Seconds later<br \/>\nbrushed away by the current.<\/p>\n<p>Children playing in a kindergarten:<br \/>\nroars, rolling screams, cries of delight<br \/>\ncolour the air. Years later<br \/>\nbrushed away by the current.<\/p>\n<p>There will be clothed trees again.<br \/>\nMore children born to play, grow<br \/>\nup, stand at Shiele\u2019s house, notice<\/p>\n<p>those tumbling houses, contorted<br \/>\nby time, the trials of human bodies,<br \/>\nthat some can never return but<br \/>\nrefuse to be brushed away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong> is a writer, professional storyteller and primary school teacher. By all means check out the results at: <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewfriday.weebly.com\/poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">matthewfriday.weebly.com\/poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; From Egon Shiele\u2019s House in Cesky Krumlov &nbsp; Looking down on the Vltava river yellow leaves splattering the glassy surface. Seconds later brushed away by the current. Children playing in a kindergarten: roars, rolling screams, cries of delight colour the air. Years later brushed away by the current. There will be clothed trees [&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-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253","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=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16521,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions\/16521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}