{"id":5587,"date":"2013-10-30T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2013-10-26T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:36:50","slug":"joe-castle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joe-castle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zippo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The jaw cracks wide<br \/>\nlike a sun-drunk lily,<br \/>\na gasp of steel<\/p>\n<p>in my talon hand<br \/>\nas it reveals a puckered gullet.<br \/>\nI thumb the flint trachea<\/p>\n<p>till it coughs up blue flame<br \/>\norange with soot.<br \/>\nA smoulder of Golden Virginia<\/p>\n<p>taints the butane air<br \/>\nas I imagine black coals<br \/>\nseared to chalk<\/p>\n<p>and a brunette in silk<br \/>\ndragging fire<br \/>\nthrough brown weeds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Castle<\/strong> is a writer living in Milton Keynes with a First Class honours from the University of Northampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Zippo The jaw cracks wide like a sun-drunk lily, a gasp of steel in my talon hand as it reveals a puckered gullet. I thumb the flint trachea till it coughs up blue flame orange with soot. A smoulder of Golden Virginia taints the butane air as I imagine black coals seared [&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-5587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587","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=5587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5589,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5587\/revisions\/5589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}