{"id":6222,"date":"2014-01-16T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2014-01-03T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T14:05:27","slug":"maureen-weldon-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/maureen-weldon-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Weldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Home &#8211; In Deeside \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every day I walk the windy tunnel<br \/>\nof the high street.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Good morning,\u2019 says the odd one,<br \/>\nplaying a comb-tune<br \/>\nthrough tissue paper. I bow.<\/p>\n<p>The estuary is nearby.<br \/>\nA neighbour tells me,<br \/>\n\u2018Makes for changeable weather.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Seagulls like this place \u2013<br \/>\ncrying until they laugh.<br \/>\nIs it the bin bags<br \/>\nstacked for collection<br \/>\nlike cliffs in the alleyway?<\/p>\n<p>Every day I put the key<br \/>\nin the lock, climb the stairs.<br \/>\nThis is my home<br \/>\namongst the chimneypots.<\/p>\n<p>A jackdaw winks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maureen Weldon<\/strong> has just completed co-editing an anthology of cat poems by The Chester Poets to be published by\u00a0 Cestrian Press. Her poems were featured in September 2013, by <em>Caught In The Net, Jim Bennett, The Poetry Kit.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Home &#8211; In Deeside \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Every day I walk the windy tunnel of the high street. \u2018Good morning,\u2019 says the odd one, playing a comb-tune through tissue paper. I bow. The estuary is nearby. A neighbour tells me, \u2018Makes for changeable weather.\u2019 Seagulls like this place \u2013 crying until they laugh. Is [&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-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","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=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6225,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}