{"id":6349,"date":"2014-02-16T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2014-02-16T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T10:30:19","slug":"uche-ogbuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/uche-ogbuji\/","title":{"rendered":"Uche Ogbuji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hair of the Dog<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nOh the drinks, nor just a few:<br \/>\nSpirits, wine and steins of brew!<br \/>\nBonnet buzzing manic bee.<br \/>\n<em>Redde<\/em>\u00a0dithyrambic due!<\/p>\n<p>He tried prairie oyster brew,<br \/>\nMerely made him heave anew;<br \/>\nSame sad luck with herbal tea.<br \/>\n<em>Redde<\/em>\u00a0dithyrambic due!<\/p>\n<p>He played Rhapsody in Blue<br \/>\nTo help down mulligan stew.<br \/>\nHow to slouch towards Innisfree?<br \/>\n<em>Redde<\/em>\u00a0dithyrambic due!<\/p>\n<p>At a sudden stroke he knew!<br \/>\nWhat should a sodden poet do?<br \/>\nSip rhyme sap from the bay tree!<br \/>\n<em>Redde<\/em>\u00a0dithyrambic due!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uche Ogbuji<\/strong>\u00a0 was born in Nigeria and lives in Boulder, Colorado, a computer engineer by profession. His collection of poems, <em>Ndewo, Colorado<\/em> is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He&#8217;s editor at <em>Kin Poetry<\/em>, <em>The Nervous breakdown<\/em>, and Twitter&#8217;s @ColoradoPoetry. This is his <a href=\"http:\/\/uche.ogbuji.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>. \u00a0Follow him on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/uogbuji\" target=\"_blank\">@uogbuji\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Hair of the Dog Oh the drinks, nor just a few: Spirits, wine and steins of brew! Bonnet buzzing manic bee. Redde\u00a0dithyrambic due! He tried prairie oyster brew, Merely made him heave anew; Same sad luck with herbal tea. Redde\u00a0dithyrambic due! He played Rhapsody in Blue To help down mulligan stew. How to [&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-6349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349","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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}