{"id":2538,"date":"2012-05-21T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T11:17:20","slug":"roddy-shippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roddy-shippin\/","title":{"rendered":"Roddy Shippin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dreich<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nit&#8217;s best like this<br \/>\non grey days<\/p>\n<p>roundabouts in rain<br \/>\nlamposts framing a slate-sky<\/p>\n<p>a bridge<br \/>\ndoused in mist<\/p>\n<p>buildings blurring from<br \/>\ntrees<\/p>\n<p>and it&#8217;s thrilling<br \/>\nas if everything is in repose<\/p>\n<p>like a wet afternoon<br \/>\nat home in\u00a0front\u00a0of<\/p>\n<p>overcomplicated<br \/>\ntelevised word-games<\/p>\n<p>anyway, we shift our tiles<br \/>\nby the amber glow of pints<\/p>\n<p>in the pub<br \/>\na raft in the clouds<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roddy Shippin<\/strong> is from Edinburgh. His poems can be found, although they tend not to be &#8211; he tires of all the tedious cutting and pasting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreich it&#8217;s best like this on grey days roundabouts in rain lamposts framing a slate-sky a bridge doused in mist buildings blurring from trees and it&#8217;s thrilling as if everything is in repose like a wet afternoon at home in\u00a0front\u00a0of overcomplicated televised word-games anyway, we shift our tiles by the amber glow of pints in [&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-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}