{"id":6275,"date":"2014-01-30T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6275"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:18:37","slug":"mo-omahony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/mo-omahony\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo O&#8217;Mahony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some nights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some nights I stand in my garden<br \/>\nlooking at my tree,<br \/>\nand Himself on it<br \/>\nsmiling at me.<br \/>\nSometimes I think I can<br \/>\ntake Him off His cross<br \/>\nand pitch Him into heaven,<\/p>\n<p>then pull my legs in,<br \/>\nstraight, like a dancer<br \/>\ncounting sevens,<br \/>\narms thrown to the sides,<br \/>\nmy fingers with the flies<br \/>\nand thumbs at my palms<br \/>\nlooking for holes.<\/p>\n<p>Then close my eyes and swing<br \/>\nmy arms around,<br \/>\nthen swing them like a hammer, up<br \/>\nto send me following<br \/>\nlike a firework.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Mo O&#8217;Mahony<\/strong> has been published here and there, and has not won any awards. He came from Ireland to London to study painting. He has a little <a href=\"http:\/\/mo-omahony.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some nights Some nights I stand in my garden looking at my tree, and Himself on it smiling at me. Sometimes I think I can take Him off His cross and pitch Him into heaven, then pull my legs in, straight, like a dancer counting sevens, arms thrown to the sides, my fingers [&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-6275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275","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=6275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6275\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}