{"id":4995,"date":"2013-08-08T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:07:57","slug":"shadwell-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/shadwell-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadwell Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some dropped behind sofas or hung on washing lines,<br \/>\nsnagged in peg bags and crowded underwired bras.<br \/>\nOthers overshot potting sheds and garden gnomes<br \/>\nto break as precinct suicides.<\/p>\n<p>These were no pudding basin gangsters from the shires,<br \/>\nthey were sturdy lads<br \/>\nfrom the Sunday butts who wore their Sire\u2019s badge,<br \/>\nborn to the smell of pig shit, with mugwort in their boots.<\/p>\n<p>Carousing after dark in moonlit groves,<br \/>\nhidden in the withy wands,<br \/>\na scattered retinue of lost men<br \/>\nclimb the seasoned beech that vaults the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shadwell Smith<\/strong> has had poems appear in <em>Snakeskin<\/em>. This is his first time in <em>Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em>. He is also a performance poet of dubious quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Company Some dropped behind sofas or hung on washing lines, snagged in peg bags and crowded underwired bras. Others overshot potting sheds and garden gnomes to break as precinct suicides. These were no pudding basin gangsters from the shires, they were sturdy lads from the Sunday butts who wore their Sire\u2019s badge, born to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-as-a-lifeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23853,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/23853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}