{"id":181,"date":"2011-02-28T18:28:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=181"},"modified":"2011-02-28T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:28:55","slug":"degna-stone-has-some-advice-on-unwanted-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/degna-stone-has-some-advice-on-unwanted-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Degna Stone has some advice on unwanted advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Avoid Giving Unwanted Advice<\/span>


Hold your tongue still with your teeth.<\/span>
Feel the sharp white line press down<\/span>
until it threatens to draw blood.<\/span>

Slip into the silences<\/span>
until your head is submerged\u2014<\/span>
resist the urge to surface for air.<\/span>

Place your advice in a room of mirrors,<\/span>
consider it from all angles <\/span>
as it puts on the finishing touches.<\/span>

Swallow rhetorical questions whole.<\/span>
Dissolve in stomach acid without reply<\/span>
and even then, don\u2019t wait for a pause<\/span>

wait to be asked.<\/span>



* Degna Stone<\/span> visited Newcastle in the summer of 1999 and never went home. Essentially, she's a Midlander in self-imposed exile…<\/span>

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How to Avoid Giving Unwanted AdviceHold your tongue still with your teeth.Feel the sharp white line press downuntil it threatens to draw blood.Slip into the silencesuntil your head is submerged\u2014resist the urge to surface for air.Place your advice in a room of mirrors,consider it from all angles as it puts on the finishing touches.Swallow rhetorical […]<\/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-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","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=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}