{"id":5600,"date":"2013-11-04T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5600"},"modified":"2013-10-30T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:16:53","slug":"jack-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jack-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like Cats and Dogs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cat and dog are getting on.<br \/>\nThe peace deal in place<br \/>\nbetween them means<br \/>\nthe cat now has permission<br \/>\nto live here near the dog\u2019s food bowl.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement negotiated,<br \/>\nthey lie sleeping in the same room,<br \/>\nthe cat stretched out in the sun<br \/>\nthe dog curled up on the sofa &#8211;<br \/>\nflowers in their fur.<\/p>\n<p>The cat still contends<br \/>\nthat all rights to return<br \/>\nhad been illegally usurped<br \/>\ntherefore any action on its part\u2019s<br \/>\nthe result of canine provocation.<\/p>\n<p>The dog wishes to reiterate<br \/>\nthat here is now its home<br \/>\nand that any scratch-led attacks<br \/>\nwill be met with a proportionate response<br \/>\nof overwhelming force.<\/p>\n<p>The situation on the ground remains tenuous,<br \/>\nfor if future talks break down<br \/>\nwe could all see a call to claws<br \/>\nand a return to snarls, with both sides<br \/>\nrevisiting scenes of previous atrocity.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the fence between them<br \/>\nseems to have either been<br \/>\ntorn down or tunnelled under<br \/>\nand so with a tentative optimism<br \/>\nwe all now live in hope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Houston<\/strong>\u00a0co-edits Nutshell Magazine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutshellmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nutshellmagazine.com<\/a>), works for Hackney Libraries, and cares for Ralph, his dog, though not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Like Cats and Dogs The cat and dog are getting on. The peace deal in place between them means the cat now has permission to live here near the dog\u2019s food bowl. The settlement negotiated, they lie sleeping in the same room, the cat stretched out in the sun the dog curled [&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-5600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600","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=5600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5603,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5600\/revisions\/5603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}