{"id":16626,"date":"2018-06-21T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16626"},"modified":"2018-05-30T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T08:59:41","slug":"ann-marie-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ann-marie-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Marie Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring in Dublin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People linger in Temple Bar<br \/>\ntake coffee and wine outside with coats still on,<br \/>\ncrowd around pipers, singers<br \/>\nwanting a memory photo of this day.<\/p>\n<p>Young girls chat with Gardai in short sleeves,<br \/>\nskateboarders skim around \u00b4Central Bank,<br \/>\nmany languages sound check outdoors,<br \/>\ncars squawk and hoot at lights.<br \/>\nPeople watch for seconds to drain to zero.<\/p>\n<p>At Ha\u2019penny Bridge the river throws back the light,<br \/>\nsinking sun frames dark buildings,<br \/>\nand blinks in windows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ann Marie Foley<\/strong> writes poetry, prose and non-fiction, lives near Portlaoise, Co Laois, Ireland and has been published in: Outburst 16&amp;17; Words UnLaoised; The Sea; Writing.ie; Cyphers 73; Acorn 5&#8230;For more information:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laoiswritersgroup.com\/anne-marie-foley.html\">\u00a0www.laoiswritersgroup.com\/anne-marie-foley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Spring in Dublin People linger in Temple Bar take coffee and wine outside with coats still on, crowd around pipers, singers wanting a memory photo of this day. Young girls chat with Gardai in short sleeves, skateboarders skim around \u00b4Central Bank, many languages sound check outdoors, cars squawk and hoot at lights. [&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-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626","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=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16627,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions\/16627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}