{"id":5069,"date":"2013-08-25T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2013-08-04T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:30:56","slug":"amanda-bonnick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/amanda-bonnick\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Bonnick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eloquence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your eyeballs are marbles in my mouth,<br \/>\nlarge, saliva-sweating, gag-making<br \/>\ngobstoppers, two for a penny,<br \/>\nkeeping me silent.<\/p>\n<p>They clank together, underwater<br \/>\ninternal, secret.<br \/>\nSlowly they melt, sweetness slick<br \/>\non shiny surfaces, releasing flavour.<\/p>\n<p>I persevere, sucking,<br \/>\narticulating my feelings<br \/>\naround the scraping glass,<br \/>\nuntil, at last, perfectly<br \/>\nthey reduce.<br \/>\nI can speak.<\/p>\n<p>So I start to talk.<br \/>\nYour eyes dart across the room to me<br \/>\nand stop my mouth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amanda Bonnick<\/strong> is a poet, novelist and actor who lives in the city of Worcester.\u00a0 She helps organise a local open mic event, <em>The Word and Sound<\/em>, and also runs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meltingpottheatre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melting Pot Theatre Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Eloquence Your eyeballs are marbles in my mouth, large, saliva-sweating, gag-making gobstoppers, two for a penny, keeping me silent. They clank together, underwater internal, secret. Slowly they melt, sweetness slick on shiny surfaces, releasing flavour. I persevere, sucking, articulating my feelings around the scraping glass, until, at last, perfectly they reduce. I [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","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=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}