{"id":4510,"date":"2013-05-17T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2013-05-17T11:04:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T11:04:40","slug":"simon-l-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/simon-l-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon L. Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Infestation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>my house<br \/>\nis full<br \/>\nof purple buzzing bumblebees<br \/>\nand tigers laying on the ceiling<br \/>\nfriends<br \/>\nthey ask me how I&#8217;m dealing<br \/>\nwith this stressful<br \/>\nsituation<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s with their morbid fascination?<\/p>\n<p>these purple buzzing bumblebees<br \/>\nand tigers laying on the ceiling<br \/>\nthey were here<br \/>\nbefore i bought the house<br \/>\nthey just wont disappear<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon L. Read<\/strong> is an author and poet from Cardiff, Wales. His most recent publication is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1477520201\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Spiced Moon<\/em>,<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatentrackpublishing.com\/?n1=authors&amp;id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Beaten Track Publishing<\/a>. He is best known for absurd surrealism and dark humour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Infestation my house is full of purple buzzing bumblebees and tigers laying on the ceiling friends they ask me how I&#8217;m dealing with this stressful situation what&#8217;s with their morbid fascination? these purple buzzing bumblebees and tigers laying on the ceiling they were here before i bought the house they just wont disappear [&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-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4513,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}