{"id":4155,"date":"2013-03-10T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2013-03-09T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T14:31:48","slug":"martin-figura-for-mothering-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/martin-figura-for-mothering-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Figura, for Mothering Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As its representative on earth she sets<\/p>\n<p>the lemon meringue onto the cloth &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>its perfect roundness and snowy peaks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She divides it up with the cake knife,<\/p>\n<p>cuts through the sweet crust<\/p>\n<p>into the bright tartiness beneath.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We devour it; lick every last crumb<\/p>\n<p>from around our mouths,<\/p>\n<p>leave a shining empty plate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Martin Figura<\/strong> was most recently described in a hospital referral letter (bad back) as \u2018a pleasant 56 year old gentleman\u2019. He lives in Norwich where he chairs Caf\u00e9 Writers amongst other things. \u00a0He\u2019s still touring his show <em>Whistle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mother<\/em> is taken from his collection and one man poetry show, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Whistle-Martin-Figura\/dp\/1904852262\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Whistle<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mother \u00a0 \u00a0 As its representative on earth she sets the lemon meringue onto the cloth &#8211; its perfect roundness and snowy peaks. &nbsp; She divides it up with the cake knife, cuts through the sweet crust into the bright tartiness beneath. &nbsp; We devour it; lick every last crumb from around [&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-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}