{"id":3325,"date":"2012-10-12T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2012-10-09T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T08:36:37","slug":"claire-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/claire-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It grows. Orchard<br \/>\nlike. Bud, flower, fruit.<br \/>\nGrab hold, try a branch for size<em>.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nIt fits, like that dress sitting<br \/>\nneatly on your curves,<br \/>\nMakes you feel like a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Infused with spices, it rests<br \/>\nin your stomach,<br \/>\nkeeping you well fed.<\/p>\n<p>But feel that fullness. Pinching<br \/>\nyour waist, tightening<br \/>\nround your lungs. Left too long it turns<\/p>\n<p>sour; withers skin and bruises<br \/>\nflesh. Walk<br \/>\nto the press , pulp<br \/>\nthe rot beneath your feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Claire Walker<\/strong> fits writing in around raising her young family. She has recently started to be published and has had work on <em>Ink Sweat and Tears<\/em> and <em>Be: Magazine<\/em> and in the Warwick Words Festival and <em>Party In Your Eye-Socket<\/em> anthologies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Fruit It grows. Orchard like. Bud, flower, fruit. Grab hold, try a branch for size. It fits, like that dress sitting neatly on your curves, Makes you feel like a woman. Infused with spices, it rests in your stomach, keeping you well fed. But feel that fullness. Pinching your waist, tightening [&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-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","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=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}