{"id":2345,"date":"2012-04-28T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T10:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T11:06:38","slug":"djurdja-vukelic-rozic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/djurdja-vukelic-rozic\/","title":{"rendered":"Djurdja Vukelic Rozic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My friend<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were a very nice, capable and patient person, my friend Ivy<br \/>\nwas better than that. If you had an expensive dress,<br \/>\nher&#8217;s was even more expensive.\u00a0 If you were really happy, Ivy would have<br \/>\ncaptivated you, very soon. As time passed by I learned to accept her<br \/>\njust the way she was.\u00a0 Each of us is\u00a0 unique sort.<br \/>\nUpon my return from\u00a0 the Medjugorje Sanctuary I had some nice<br \/>\nphotographs to show her.\u00a0 I did not go on the trip just to boast<br \/>\nabout it afterwards, but wanted to share some nice moments just with her.<\/p>\n<p>Ivy had been to\u00a0 this beautiful sanctuary\u00a0 several years earlier.<br \/>\nAfter listening to my excited stories, she asked me in a serious tone:<br \/>\nDid you go\u00a0 to the water closet there?<br \/>\nNo, we stayed at the hotel cross the street<br \/>\nwhere we had really nice rooms and everything else.<br \/>\nSo, you did not see the public conveniences, there?<br \/>\nNo, I didn&#8217;t!<br \/>\nNow, that was something to think about!\u00a0 How come I hadn&#8217;t seen<br \/>\nthe water closet, indeed!<br \/>\n-You should have, you know.\u00a0 It&#8217; s an adventure!\u00a0 It is the<br \/>\nmost beautiful water closet I&#8217;ve ever seen.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t believe it &#8230;<br \/>\nToo bad you did not see it.<br \/>\nI hung my head in shame.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we have friends,\u00a0 I guess.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djurdja Vukelic Rozic\u00a0<\/strong> was born on April 6, 1956, lives in Croatia. She graduated from the Faculty of Economy in Zagreb, in her youth she lived in Chicago, USA.\u00a0 She publishes humorous sketches, aphorisms and poetry.\u00a0 So far published 4 independent collections of humorous sketches, book of poetry, while aphorisms and another book of poetry are at the printers. She published a haiku collection as well and edited an anthology of Croatian haiku poetry in Croatian and English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend If you were a very nice, capable and patient person, my friend Ivy was better than that. If you had an expensive dress, her&#8217;s was even more expensive.\u00a0 If you were really happy, Ivy would have captivated you, very soon. As time passed by I learned to accept her just the way she [&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-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","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=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}