{"id":18229,"date":"2019-01-05T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18229"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:32:51","slug":"laura-mckee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/laura-mckee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura McKee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Since it was all about a son<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ask my son now that he doesn\u2019t really believe in everything<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s Christmas all about then? I mean what does it mean to you?<\/p>\n<p>there is still a hole in the roof to follow a star through<br \/>\nbut we have just had the boiler fixed<\/p>\n<p>warm and sleepy he stretches out his body<br \/>\nand his answer\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 er\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 er \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 er\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 cold\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 but warm<\/p>\n<p>because you wear<br \/>\nI don\u2019t mean just you<br \/>\nbut you wear<br \/>\nway too many layers of clothing<\/p>\n<p>I ask him does that make you just right<br \/>\nor too warm then<br \/>\ntoo warm he says assertively<br \/>\nhalf asleep and fully a wise man<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura McKee<\/strong> knows the handwriting of all the elves but doesn&#8217;t have the teeth for sellotape. Find her spearing the Turkish Delight, or on Twitter: @Estlinin and newly hatched on Instagram: @pretendpoet1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Since it was all about a son I ask my son now that he doesn\u2019t really believe in everything what\u2019s Christmas all about then? I mean what does it mean to you? there is still a hole in the roof to follow a star through but we have just had the boiler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18231,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions\/18231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}