{"id":1718,"date":"2009-05-27T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1718"},"modified":"2009-05-27T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:57:56","slug":"colin-cross-has-achieved-a-childhood-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-cross-has-achieved-a-childhood-ambition\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Cross has achieved a childhood ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"

WALKING THE DOGS<\/span>

as a young child<\/span>
at primary school<\/span>
in the New Forest<\/span>
I was fascinated<\/span>
by the large lorries<\/span>
with large suction attachments<\/span>
you used to come<\/span>
to the school<\/span>
every week<\/span>
to pump out<\/span>
the school toilets<\/span>
 <\/span>
and one day<\/span>
I went home<\/span>
and told my parents<\/span>
that<\/span>
when I grew up<\/span>
I wanted to be<\/span>
a lavatory man<\/span>
 <\/span>
now<\/span>
having spent much<\/span>
of my adult life<\/span>
working shitty jobs<\/span>
for crap pay<\/span>
I walk two dogs<\/span>
for an elderly<\/span>
friend of mine<\/span>
 <\/span>
this involves<\/span>
picking up their shit<\/span>
and it makes me<\/span>
feel good to know<\/span>
that in my<\/span>
early sixties<\/span>
I have finally<\/span>
at least partially<\/span>
achieved<\/span>
my childhood ambition<\/span>


* Colin Cross lives in Norwich and is a regular IS&T contributor<\/span>
<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WALKING THE DOGSas a young childat primary schoolin the New ForestI was fascinatedby the large lorrieswith large suction attachmentsyou used to cometo the schoolevery weekto pump outthe school toilets and one dayI went homeand told my parentsthatwhen I grew upI wanted to bea lavatory man nowhaving spent muchof my adult lifeworking shitty jobsfor crap payI walk two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}