{"id":7017,"date":"2014-07-12T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T08:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2014-06-27T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:58:23","slug":"roddy-williams-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roddy-williams-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Roddy Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>on the tube<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>three skateboarders in their thirties<br \/>\nbattered boards cradled between legs<br \/>\none of them begins to spin one wheel<br \/>\nit hums like a trapped wasp<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;it&#8217;s like peeling the label off a bottle, man&#8217;<br \/>\nthe spinner says<br \/>\n&#8216;it&#8217;s just the frustration&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>at which the other two<br \/>\nbegin to spin their wheels<\/p>\n<p>nothing more is said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roddy Williams<\/strong> is an artist, writer and photographer, based in London. He has recently seen publication with <em>Magma, Smiths Knoll, South Poetry<\/em> and T<em>heNewerYork&#8217;s Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; on the tube three skateboarders in their thirties battered boards cradled between legs one of them begins to spin one wheel it hums like a trapped wasp &#8216;it&#8217;s like peeling the label off a bottle, man&#8217; the spinner says &#8216;it&#8217;s just the frustration&#8217; at which the other two begin to spin their [&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-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017","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=7017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7017\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}