{"id":16861,"date":"2018-08-02T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T10:53:13","slug":"lynn-tammadge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lynn-tammadge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Tammadge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late Nights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A smokeless jazz club is a garden<br \/>\nscrubbed clean.<\/p>\n<p>Three girls are drumming their nails<br \/>\non wine-stained tables, percussion<\/p>\n<p>to purple tunes, ticking a rhythm<br \/>\nthat barely exists,<\/p>\n<p>leaning their chins on slight wrists,<br \/>\nreminiscing.<\/p>\n<p>The thickness of air, soaking of odour<br \/>\ninto silk, languorous<\/p>\n<p>inhalation of toxins, the pressed, gentle valley<br \/>\nin the skin of fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The sax slides like treacle down the walls,<br \/>\nsettles cool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynn Tammadge<\/strong> was, until recently, a massage practitioner. This year, she decided to close her business and re-ignite her passion for poetry and words. Having graduated from Lancaster University with her MA in Creative Writing in 2012, she\u2019s glad to be back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Late Nights A smokeless jazz club is a garden scrubbed clean. Three girls are drumming their nails on wine-stained tables, percussion to purple tunes, ticking a rhythm that barely exists, leaning their chins on slight wrists, reminiscing. The thickness of air, soaking of odour into silk, languorous inhalation of toxins, the pressed, gentle [&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-16861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861","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=16861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16862,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16861\/revisions\/16862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}