{"id":2219,"date":"2012-04-13T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T08:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2012-05-06T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:19:39","slug":"roy-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roy-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arm Wrestling with Nonno<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My mother told me how he altered<br \/>\nthe river\u2019s course, how those muscles<br \/>\nwere forged in the icy torrent where<br \/>\nhe shifted boulders.<\/p>\n<p>An alpine soldier of the first war,<br \/>\nlater self-announced target<br \/>\nof Fascist batons and castor oil;<br \/>\nFireman, climber, hell-raiser.<\/p>\n<p>I knew him in a wheelchair,<br \/>\nhis demijohns of red turning<br \/>\nto vinegar under the stairs<br \/>\nas he sipped Orangina.<\/p>\n<p>It was my face that brought light<br \/>\nto his pale eyes, and it was me who,<br \/>\nbefore he died, was the one<br \/>\nhe allowed to win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roy Marshall<\/strong> is a nurse and poet living in Leicestershire. He has been published in magazines in the UK and Ireland. His new pamphlet<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/0955180090\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">Gopagilla<\/a><\/em>is\u00a0 published by Crystal Clear Creators. Roy blogs. at <a href=\"http:\/\/roymarshall.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">roymarshall.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arm Wrestling with Nonno My mother told me how he altered the river\u2019s course, how those muscles were forged in the icy torrent where he shifted boulders. An alpine soldier of the first war, later self-announced target of Fascist batons and castor oil; Fireman, climber, hell-raiser. I knew him in a wheelchair, his demijohns of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}