{"id":6954,"date":"2014-06-26T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2014-05-29T15:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T15:35:03","slug":"aidan-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/aidan-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>On returning to Charlie Byrne\u2019s Bookshop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a herd of Friesians,<\/p>\n<p>hides quivering and udders swaying,<\/p>\n<p>as the gate opens<\/p>\n<p>on silt-sweetened river meadow grass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am the leap off searing rock<\/p>\n<p>into a translucent pool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am blood draining to the heart.<\/p>\n<p>I am kindling to oxygen\u2019s caress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a seventy year old woman<\/p>\n<p>in a Lenten church<\/p>\n<p>mouthing silent devotion<\/p>\n<p>station by station.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aidan Fallon<\/strong> is originally from Ireland and lives in East Northamptonshire.\u00a0 He created some space from his paid job two years ago to start writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On returning to Charlie Byrne\u2019s Bookshop &nbsp; I am a herd of Friesians, hides quivering and udders swaying, as the gate opens on silt-sweetened river meadow grass. &nbsp; I am the leap off searing rock into a translucent pool. &nbsp; I am blood draining to the heart. I am kindling to oxygen\u2019s [&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-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","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=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}