{"id":3743,"date":"2012-12-21T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2012-12-21T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T07:20:37","slug":"robert-nisbet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/robert-nisbet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Nisbet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wanting Out<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe rare sunshine of a stormy summer.<br \/>\nGreta, Gwenda, leave their checkouts,<br \/>\nslink from their supervisors, for a tea break fag.<br \/>\nBy the pathway\u2019s bench, they watch a cat in sun.<br \/>\nBasking, she\u2019s found a cardboard carton,<br \/>\n<em>16 by 4-ounce packs<\/em>, somesuch,<br \/>\nhas squeezed within, but then wants out.<br \/>\nSo then that cat (the tart)<br \/>\nslinks her hips, wriggles her kitten\u2019s butt,<br \/>\nis out, breasting the sunshine.<br \/>\nThen the girls have to scurry, break done,<br \/>\nas the cat goes back in the carton, slinks out again.<br \/>\nThat cat wants in, wants out,<br \/>\nthat cat gets in, gets out. The tart.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Robert Nisbet<\/strong>\u2019s most recent collections are <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1902638379\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">Downtrain <\/a><\/em>(short stories, Parthian, 2004) and <em>Merlin\u2019s Lane<\/em> (poems, Prolebooks, 2011)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Wanting Out The rare sunshine of a stormy summer. Greta, Gwenda, leave their checkouts, slink from their supervisors, for a tea break fag. By the pathway\u2019s bench, they watch a cat in sun. Basking, she\u2019s found a cardboard carton, 16 by 4-ounce packs, somesuch, has squeezed within, but then wants out. So then [&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-3743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743","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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}