{"id":19774,"date":"2019-09-12T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19774"},"modified":"2019-09-11T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:00:41","slug":"nikki-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/nikki-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikki Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost Benefit Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine walking into a deserted corridor<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">without the fear of cobwebs catching<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">in your hair or in your face.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imagine running a bath without the need to<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">check first that there are<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">no occupants already.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imagine sleeping at ease, no panic<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">that you will be unexpectedly joined<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">by an eight-legged cohabitant.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a warm day, with food<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">left out, coated in bluebottles,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">rendering it at best hazardous.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imagine clothes with nibbled holes, where<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">moth larvae have tucked in, unhampered<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">by a natural predator.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imagine each corner of the house, dust<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">piled high, settled without being<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">suspended from a sticky filigree net.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And put down the shoe, the vacuum<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">cleaner, the newspaper, and learn<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">to appreciate benefits.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Nikki Fine<\/strong> is a former English teacher who now writes, sings and directs with local amateur groups. She has had work published in <em>The Interpreter\u2019s House<\/em> and <em>The Oxford Magazine<\/em>, and self-published a poetry collection on the theme of quantum physics.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cost Benefit Analysis Imagine walking into a deserted corridor without the fear of cobwebs catching in your hair or in your face. Imagine running a bath without the need to check first that there are no occupants already. Imagine sleeping at ease, no panic that you will be unexpectedly joined by an [&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-19774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774","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=19774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20016,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19774\/revisions\/20016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}