{"id":7774,"date":"2014-12-02T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2014-11-29T10:35:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T10:35:14","slug":"gill-mcevoy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gill-mcevoy-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Gill McEvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Deep Remission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been given permission<br \/>\nto be in remission,<br \/>\ndeep, deep remission \u2014<br \/>\nbut what does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>Does it mean the excision<br \/>\nof my cancer condition<br \/>\nhas come to fruition,<br \/>\nmy body is clean?<\/p>\n<p>Was it careful nutrition<br \/>\nor focussed ambition<br \/>\nthat brought this \u2018remission\u2019<br \/>\nwhich I\u2019ve never seen?<\/p>\n<p>I have strange inhibitions<br \/>\nabout this remission \u2014<br \/>\nwas it outright permission<br \/>\nor a bit \u2018in between\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>When they gave me permission<br \/>\nto be in remission<br \/>\nwas there any omission,<br \/>\nor might there have been?<\/p>\n<p>Who made the decision<br \/>\nto grant me permission<br \/>\nto be in remission \u2014<br \/>\nand <em>wha<\/em>t did they mean?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gill McEvoy<\/strong>\u00a0is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her second Cinnamon Press collection is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<em>Rise<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 ( 2013.) Gill runs many poetry events in Chester where she lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In Deep Remission I\u2019ve been given permission to be in remission, deep, deep remission \u2014 but what does it mean? Does it mean the excision of my cancer condition has come to fruition, my body is clean? Was it careful nutrition or focussed ambition that brought this \u2018remission\u2019 which I\u2019ve never seen? [&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-7774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}