{"id":375,"date":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=375"},"modified":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T11:00:00","slug":"a-poem-from-lenni-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/a-poem-from-lenni-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"A poem from Lenni Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Childhood of the Greatest Bartender in the Land<\/span>

You grew up<\/span>
magic eyed,<\/span>
crawling between the barstools.<\/span>
The first words you read<\/span>
were the incantations<\/span>
40 percent proof,<\/span>
sweet and dry, bitter and stout.<\/span>
When you were done playing<\/span>
you put your toy in the nearest empty pint glass.<\/span>

You stopped every fight<\/span>
before it began.<\/span>
Your hands were as fistless as sponges<\/span>
and inspired soft hands, cradling arms,<\/span>
and the loving drunks<\/span>
sang lullabies<\/span>
as they reeled on home. <\/span>



*Lenni Sanders<\/span> is a student writer so she writes like she eats, using whatever she can find and\/or afford<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Childhood of the Greatest Bartender in the LandYou grew upmagic eyed,crawling between the barstools.The first words you readwere the incantations40 percent proof,sweet and dry, bitter and stout.When you were done playingyou put your toy in the nearest empty pint glass.You stopped every fightbefore it began.Your hands were as fistless as spongesand inspired soft hands, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}