{"id":5198,"date":"2013-09-12T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2013-09-02T11:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:03:35","slug":"maurice-devitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/maurice-devitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Devitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fox and the Chanticleer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They wake<br \/>\nto the spraking<br \/>\nof sparrows, the gloop<br \/>\nof early morning light,<br \/>\nwhen the first minutes<br \/>\nof a certain future<br \/>\nseem blissfully unclear<br \/>\nand the fox<br \/>\nresplendent<br \/>\nin green hunting-check<br \/>\nwaits<br \/>\nfor the chanticleer<br \/>\nto rise the sun,<br \/>\nknowing<br \/>\nthat handsome is<br \/>\nas handsome does<br \/>\nand patience,<br \/>\nhowever grey,<br \/>\nwill always<br \/>\noutshine pride.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maurice Devitt<\/strong> is a\u00a0 graduate of the Poetry Studies MA at Mater Dei and in 2012 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, runner-up in the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition and short-listed for the Listowel Writers\u2019 Week Poetry Collection Competition. He has had poems published in journals in Ireland, England, the US, Australia and Mexico, and is working on a first collection..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Fox and the Chanticleer They wake to the spraking of sparrows, the gloop of early morning light, when the first minutes of a certain future seem blissfully unclear and the fox resplendent in green hunting-check waits for the chanticleer to rise the sun, knowing that handsome is as handsome does and patience, [&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-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5200,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}