{"id":7000,"date":"2014-07-08T09:08:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T09:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7000"},"modified":"2014-06-27T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:27:40","slug":"anthony-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/anthony-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liturgy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If insects<br \/>\nruled the World<br \/>\nwould that be so bad?<\/p>\n<p>They have been persecuted enough.<br \/>\nAnd now it is Judgement Day.<\/p>\n<p>In such a vision<br \/>\ninsects are adorned with human faces.<\/p>\n<p>My own reticulated image in the dung beetle.<\/p>\n<p>Insects &amp; spiders &amp; beetles &amp; birds<br \/>\nadorned with apocalyptic faces,<br \/>\nwith the blobfish &#8211; King of the Ocean &#8211;<br \/>\na double-ringer<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">for my local padre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anthony Costello<\/strong> has been travelling and writing since 2012. He is currently living in West Yorkshire working on his first collection and translating the poems of Alain-Fournier. His poetry has appeared in many magazines including: <em>The French Literary Review. The Fortnightly Review, Poetry Review, Poetry Salzburg Review<\/em> and <em>Acumen.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Liturgy If insects ruled the World would that be so bad? They have been persecuted enough. And now it is Judgement Day. In such a vision insects are adorned with human faces. My own reticulated image in the dung beetle. Insects &amp; spiders &amp; beetles &amp; birds adorned with apocalyptic faces, with [&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-7000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000","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=7000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7000\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}