{"id":5549,"date":"2013-10-25T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2013-10-07T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:59:02","slug":"bernard-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bernard-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen the girl in years<br \/>\nshe had lost a lot of weight since then, and her virginity as well<br \/>\ntold me she lost it to a man she met in Mexico<br \/>\nher virginity, I mean<br \/>\nthe weight she lost on her own when she gave up meat<br \/>\nand took up yoga<br \/>\nshe looked good, really good<br \/>\nafter our second date she broke her ankle and I bought her a reaching stick<br \/>\nit cost me thirty-five dollars<br \/>\nlooking back, it was too much<br \/>\non our third date we watched a movie and laughed<br \/>\nher big eyes were blue, naive and beautiful<br \/>\nshe glowed when she smiled and had great legs<br \/>\neven in that huge plaster cast<br \/>\non our fourth date she tried to sell me Amway<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t see her again<br \/>\nthese things happen, I guess<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bernard Barnes<\/strong> was born in Canada and began seriously writing while bartending in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Amway I hadn&#8217;t seen the girl in years she had lost a lot of weight since then, and her virginity as well told me she lost it to a man she met in Mexico her virginity, I mean the weight she lost on her own when she gave up meat and took [&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-5549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549","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=5549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5549\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}