{"id":5244,"date":"2013-10-01T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T15:06:09","slug":"david-mac-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/david-mac-7\/","title":{"rendered":"David Mac for National Poetry Day&#8217;s &#8216;Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Water is Mad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ophelia in the water<br \/>\nthere are mad skies<br \/>\nbroken branches<br \/>\nand heartache sorrow<br \/>\neverywhere<br \/>\nuntil we float<br \/>\nand we do float<br \/>\non the cool pool of nothing<br \/>\nto give up wondering what is above<br \/>\nand start thinking what is below<br \/>\nand has it always been there<br \/>\nlooking up at us<br \/>\nfrom the start<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Mac<\/strong> is one of the greatest forklift drivers to emerge from the UK. His words have appeared in many mags, journals, zines, sites and blogs. He hides out somewhere deep in the Bedfordshire Hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Water is Mad Ophelia in the water there are mad skies broken branches and heartache sorrow everywhere until we float and we do float on the cool pool of nothing to give up wondering what is above and start thinking what is below and has it always been there looking up at [&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-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","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=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}