{"id":7245,"date":"2014-08-25T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:56:33","slug":"thomas-mccoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/thomas-mccoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas McColl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For assuming that I am the most important person in the human race, the gods have announced demotion of my I to lower case.<\/p>\n<p>i have not been told when this will take place, but by stating that, i realise now there is no need. i have begun my sentence in the previous sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The gods and Descartes in Nirvana have decreed i think (only of myself), therefore i am (no longer denoted by a capital i).<\/p>\n<p>i cannot hear the difference, but i can see the gods have made me half the i i used to be.<\/p>\n<p>i, Claudius. Damn! The gods are not fooled by an alias.<\/p>\n<p>How vain must e.e. cummings have been, to pay so dearly for his crime?<\/p>\n<p>The gods have informed me i will be allowed an exclamation mark for good behaviour while i am serving out my time.<\/p>\n<p>An i followed by an exclamation mark is almost a capital i, just once removed.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as my application to be the most important person in the human race has been approved, i\u2019ll demand back my capital i complete with exclamation mark as compensation, so everyone can clearly see the gods at last are pleased with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas McColl<\/strong> has recently been published by <em>Bare Fiction, Smoke<\/em>, the <em>Belleville Park Pages, the Next Review<\/em> and <em>Geeked,<\/em> and also came 2nd in <em>4&#8217;33 Magazine&#8217;<\/em>s 60 second story contest. He has a twitter account: @ThomasMcColl2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &nbsp; I For assuming that I am the most important person in the human race, the gods have announced demotion of my I to lower case. i have not been told when this will take place, but by stating that, i realise now there is no need. i have begun my sentence in the [&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-7245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245","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=7245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7245\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}