{"id":3173,"date":"2012-09-18T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2012-09-16T10:37:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T10:37:03","slug":"donal-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/donal-mahoney\/","title":{"rendered":"Donal Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Corner of Wells and Madison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know that if I ever<br \/>\nfall in the street<br \/>\nthe way that man did,<br \/>\nin the middle of an intersection,<br \/>\nsomeone will mind.<br \/>\nBut if unlike that man<br \/>\nI make it<br \/>\nto the other side,<br \/>\nscale the curb and<br \/>\nmount the sidewalk<br \/>\nand then fall,<br \/>\nno one will have to<br \/>\ndrive around me.<br \/>\nThere will be no extra noise.<br \/>\nThere will be only the usual honking.<br \/>\nPeople walking by<br \/>\nwill have to watch their step, true.<br \/>\nBut this is Chicago:<br \/>\nNo one can blame me for that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donal Mahoney<\/strong> has had work published in <em>Ink Sweat and Tears <\/em>and other publications in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. Some of his earliest work can be found here: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/booksonblog12.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/booksonblog12.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Corner of Wells and Madison I know that if I ever fall in the street the way that man did, in the middle of an intersection, someone will mind. But if unlike that man I make it to the other side, scale the curb and mount the sidewalk and then fall, no one [&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-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","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=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}