{"id":2545,"date":"2012-05-23T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:33:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T11:33:24","slug":"rodney-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rodney-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Martin Wilson and the Pantomime of Shadows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What he doesn&#8217;t like are dinners,<\/p>\n<p>parties, rooms with more than<\/p>\n<p>four people, radios, telephones<\/p>\n<p>and anyone asking him questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sounds circle around like birds<\/p>\n<p>of prey with beaks sharpened,<\/p>\n<p>claws tipped with carbon steel<\/p>\n<p>and wings holding razor blades<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ready to rip him apart<\/p>\n<p>cut him up in four different ways<\/p>\n<p>long, short, deep and wide<\/p>\n<p>and trim him down to size.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough<\/p>\n<p>a bright yellow tin can<\/p>\n<p>is tied to his head<\/p>\n<p>with a sign saying<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>THIS MAN IS STUPID<\/p>\n<p>in case you missed it<\/p>\n<p>the sign says<\/p>\n<p>THIS MAN IS STUPID<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rodney Wood<\/strong> lives in Farnborough, Hants. He retired a few years ago but works part time looking after a granddaughter and volunteering at a local arts centre. He&#8217;s had poems published in magazines and anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Wilson and the Pantomime of Shadows &nbsp; What he doesn&#8217;t like are dinners, parties, rooms with more than four people, radios, telephones and anyone asking him questions. &nbsp; The sounds circle around like birds of prey with beaks sharpened, claws tipped with carbon steel and wings holding razor blades &nbsp; ready to rip him [&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-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}