{"id":6797,"date":"2014-05-16T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6797"},"modified":"2014-05-06T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T10:35:43","slug":"jonathan-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jonathan-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Things My Brother and Sister Taught Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That Brazil is the capital of Europe<br \/>\nThat triangles have six right angles<br \/>\nThat babies come from sharing soap<br \/>\nThat rows caused by winning games<br \/>\nwere never worth the bother<\/p>\n<p>That schools dance on taxi bonnets<br \/>\nin New York, never Stoke-unfamous-Trent<\/p>\n<p>That, born here, we won\u2019t live forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Taylor<\/strong>&#8216;s books include the poetry collection Musicolepsy (Shoestring Press, 2013), the novel Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), and the memoir Take Me Home: Parkinson&#8217;s, My Father, Myself (Granta Books, 2007). He lectures in Creative Writing at Leicester University, and is co-director of arts organisation and small publisher Crystal Clear Creators. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Things My Brother and Sister Taught Me &nbsp; That Brazil is the capital of Europe That triangles have six right angles That babies come from sharing soap That rows caused by winning games were never worth the bother That schools dance on taxi bonnets in New York, never Stoke-unfamous-Trent That, born [&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-6797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797","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=6797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6797\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}