{"id":17162,"date":"2018-10-19T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17162"},"modified":"2018-08-12T09:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:09:36","slug":"anna-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anna-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Above the quarry, a rain cloud shifts.<br \/>\nScoured against the sky, its body<br \/>\ngradually disintegrates, trailing itself out in long wisps<br \/>\nwhich drift towards the earth<br \/>\nlike hundreds of delicate limbs.<\/p>\n<p>Blindly it feels its way<br \/>\nover the desolate land-<br \/>\nweaving around telegraph poles<br \/>\nsidestepping the husks of burnt out cars-<br \/>\nit passes, miraculously unscathed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna\u00a0Forbes<\/strong> is a 23 year old poet from Edinburgh. She has spent\u00a0time\u00a0living and studying in\u00a0Cornwall and Ireland. \u00a0She\u00a0is currently working towards a degree in Comparative Literature at King\u2019s College, London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Absolution Above the quarry, a rain cloud shifts. Scoured against the sky, its body gradually disintegrates, trailing itself out in long wisps which drift towards the earth like hundreds of delicate limbs. Blindly it feels its way over the desolate land- weaving around telegraph poles sidestepping the husks of burnt out cars- it [&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-17162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162","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=17162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17654,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions\/17654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}