{"id":19423,"date":"2019-07-07T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19423"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:39:45","slug":"dan-stathers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dan-stathers-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Stathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"m_2783554683043031833gmail-m_1452906792501791816ydp983f8762MsoNormal\"><strong>The Boundary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dug in the gum of a field<br \/>\nthe stone stile sits,<br \/>\nboot-worn and old<br \/>\nwith the hedgerows;<br \/>\nits aged, slate skin<br \/>\nbone-hard and clammy<br \/>\nas I lean my hands<br \/>\non its beaten brow.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side<br \/>\na coat of emerald grass<br \/>\nhugs the claggy, brown earth<br \/>\nand wagtails weave<br \/>\nin the hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p>I turn back,<br \/>\nfollowing the ploughed<br \/>\nfurrows home &#8211;<br \/>\nthe empty beds<br \/>\nof last season\u2019s harvest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Dan Stathers<\/strong> is a writer from the South Hams.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Boundary Dug in the gum of a field the stone stile sits, boot-worn and old with the hedgerows; its aged, slate skin bone-hard and clammy as I lean my hands on its beaten brow. On the other side a coat of emerald grass hugs the claggy, brown earth and wagtails weave [&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-19423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423","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=19423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19577,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}