{"id":7604,"date":"2014-11-13T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7604"},"modified":"2014-11-02T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T11:55:45","slug":"shadwell-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/shadwell-smith-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadwell Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robot on Parquet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He watched them dance<br \/>\nfrom a fold up chair,<br \/>\nrigid Tin Man in a sports hall<br \/>\ntrying not to stare too hard<br \/>\nat swans that bobbed<br \/>\nand arced through air<br \/>\nin sudden flux and fletch<br \/>\nto skim across the polished floor<br \/>\ntowards where he sat<\/p>\n<p>a no-fly zone for bluebirds<br \/>\nand associated optical phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shadwell Smith<\/strong> is a teacher by day and a poet by night. His poems have previously appeared in <em>Snakeskin, Ink, Sweat and Tears, London Grip, Prole <\/em>and<em> Message in a Bottle.<\/em> He also has a 25 yards swimming certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Robot on Parquet He watched them dance from a fold up chair, rigid Tin Man in a sports hall trying not to stare too hard at swans that bobbed and arced through air in sudden flux and fletch to skim across the polished floor towards where he sat a no-fly zone for [&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-7604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7607,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions\/7607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}