{"id":2732,"date":"2012-06-22T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2012-06-22T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:28:00","slug":"matthew-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-friday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Constantia;\"><strong>The Habit of Pigeons<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They returned<br \/>\nwhen they hacked<br \/>\nthe tree off at its wide, ancient knees,<br \/>\nleaving fat heels bulging into the cracked<br \/>\nconcrete. They returned<br \/>\nbecause old men emptied shopping bags<br \/>\nof breadcrumbs over the stump.<\/p>\n<p>They returned<br \/>\nwhen they yanked<br \/>\nout the stump; stuffed the gaping hole<br \/>\nwith a greasy tarmac filling and ringed<br \/>\nit with an orange barrier, which they sat<br \/>\non, waiting for the old men to return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong> is a writer, professional storyteller and primary school teacher. By all means check out the results at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfriday.com\/\">www.matthewfriday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Habit of Pigeons They returned when they hacked the tree off at its wide, ancient knees, leaving fat heels bulging into the cracked concrete. They returned because old men emptied shopping bags of breadcrumbs over the stump. They returned when they yanked out the stump; stuffed the gaping hole with a greasy tarmac filling [&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-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","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=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}