{"id":16669,"date":"2018-07-09T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16669"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:34:42","slug":"paul-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/paul-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is something more<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mostly now<br \/>\nI want to<br \/>\nSlit the throat<br \/>\nOf every sunset<br \/>\nThen stroke its cheap bleached hair<br \/>\nAnd tell it<br \/>\nEverything will be ok<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes<br \/>\nThis sadness is<br \/>\nSo sweet<br \/>\nThat all you can do<br \/>\nIs smile<br \/>\nAs the tingle<br \/>\nMoves all through you<br \/>\nAs you remember<br \/>\nHow beautiful<br \/>\nUp is<\/p>\n<p>So I wait<br \/>\nAt train stations<br \/>\nIn the rain,<br \/>\nSure that&#8217;s romantic,<br \/>\nTell myself<br \/>\nThe next train<br \/>\nThe next one<\/p>\n<p>And as they close up<br \/>\nFor the night<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a small boy<br \/>\nHearing thunder<br \/>\nFor the first time<br \/>\nAnd looking for his father<br \/>\nAs all the lights<br \/>\nGo out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Grant<\/strong> is a cleaner who sometimes writes. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/writingknightspress.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/a-feast-of-salt-by-paul-grant.html\">http:\/\/writingknightspress.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/a-feast-of-salt-by-paul-grant.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; There is something more Mostly now I want to Slit the throat Of every sunset Then stroke its cheap bleached hair And tell it Everything will be ok Sometimes This sadness is So sweet That all you can do Is smile As the tingle Moves all through you As you remember How beautiful [&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-16669","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\/16669","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=16669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17281,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669\/revisions\/17281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}