{"id":7554,"date":"2014-10-29T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2014-10-21T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T14:01:02","slug":"sofia-amina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sofia-amina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Amina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blood Roots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day I will be a tree<\/p>\n<p>When I am buried and my body rots<br \/>\nI will be eaten by worms and those little bugs<br \/>\nthat always seem to be in a hurry<\/p>\n<p>When I am buried and my body rots<br \/>\nI am going to feed that tree over there too<br \/>\nwith the true English roses<br \/>\nand the plump baby rose buds<br \/>\nhanging perfectly so<\/p>\n<p>Watch them turn and roll in amazement<br \/>\nas a few spices warm their earthy veins<\/p>\n<p>This British-Indian woman.<br \/>\nNow an English Rose.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sofia Amina<\/strong> lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.\u00a0 She is published in <em>BlazeVOX 2014<\/em> and her work is also going to be included in an anthology by Red Squirrel Press. <a href=\"http:\/\/sofiaamina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sofiaamina.com <\/a>and @SofiaAmina_Poet\u2019<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood Roots One day I will be a tree When I am buried and my body rots I will be eaten by worms and those little bugs that always seem to be in a hurry When I am buried and my body rots I am going to feed that tree over there too with 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-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","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=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7557,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions\/7557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}